Re: Phix: How to Globalize(?) a Namespace Identifier
- Posted by petelomax May 31, 2020
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ghaberek said...
Here are the discussions on the rapdieuphoria-develop mailing list from 2008 regarding how they arrived at the current functionality in Euphoria.
- 2008-05-17 22:34:41 [Rapideuphoria-develop] Namespace Proposal #1
- 2008-05-18 16:05:05 [Rapideuphoria-develop] Namespace Proposal #2
- 2008-05-19 02:39:16 [Rapideuphoria-develop] Namespace Proposals - What's the Difference?
- 2008-05-21 02:06:55 [Rapideuphoria-develop] Namespaces - What now?
- 2008-05-24 12:06:34 [Rapideuphoria-develop] Namespaces - 2 more decisions to make
- 2008-05-25 14:53:18 [Rapideuphoria-develop] Namespace Changes and Voting
- 2008-05-26 02:36:38 [Rapideuphoria-develop] VOTE: Calling functions internal vs. namespace
- 2008-05-26 12:09:24 [Rapideuphoria-develop] Question about VOTE: Calling functions internal vs. namespace
- 2008-05-26 23:43:13 [Rapideuphoria-develop] Final Piece of the namespace puzzle
- 2008-05-28 22:55:23 [Rapideuphoria-develop] Final Pieces (all together)
(I find it amusing that this topic is being discussed on the same days of the year as it was back then.)
-Greg
Hah! I particularly enjoyed my own conspicuous absence from all that particularly vacuous nonsense! 
I have always been in the ftp_open() is better than ftp:open() camp, and recall 3 or 4 years ago being slightly apprehensive over banning builtin overrides in Phix, but in all the time since, doing so has not bitten me back even once.
