OpenEuphoria

Re: . or : for namespace?

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at gmail?c?m> Apr 26, 2008
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c.k.lester wrote:
> 
> Greg Haberek wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Technically, it's not "a different meaning."
> 
> The dot means, "access the method of the parent." It's hierarchy-specific,
> regardless of object orientation.
> 
> A datetime function namespaced and called like dt.now() is the exact same
> interface result as a call to an object like dt.now(). The only thing that's
> different is the behind-the-scenes processing.

Yes, but considering the existing uses of . it would be confusing.  We'd
have to go through the whole thing of people trying to use individual include
files as classes.

Matt