OpenEuphoria

Re: . or : for namespace?

• Posted by Greg Haberek <ghaberek at gmail?co?> Apr 25, 2008
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> For the fun of it, I looked at parser.e and after adding 12 characters to the
> code, . now works in addition to :...
> 
> I am not committing this change, though, as it needs much discussion. I was
> just playing. If, however, . is adopted, we could support both and give a
> warning
> that : is deprecated.
> 
> Just thinking aloud.

Honestly, I think . is a horrible idea. It's been consumed by the masses of
object-oriented programming. I personally would be confused as hell if . had a
different meaning in Euphoria as it did in a bunch of other languages.


-Greg