OpenEuphoria

Re: . or : for namespace?

• Posted by Jeremy Cowgar <jeremy at cowgar?co?> May 06, 2008
• 662 views

Mike wrote:
> 
> 
> Yes. And you don't either. Noone does. That's the point.
> 

Please comment on my post: 

http://www.openeuphoria.org/EUforum/m20546.html

> There are good semantic benefits to keeping : as namespace operator. The only
> advantage for using . is that it is nicer looking. I have yet to see advocates
> of . present an argument stronger than that.
>
> Think I'm full of horse droppings? Well, you're welcome to prove me wrong.

: blends right in with text, that's why others have not adopted it. lik:this.
lik.this does not.

Why do other languages that have the . as the namespace, class, struct delimiter
not have problems? We can look at history and tell this is not going to be a
problem. No sense in trying to predict the future. Preiod is more natural, easier
to read for scanning and easier for typing.

But please, comment on my post that I referred to above.

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Jeremy Cowgar
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