OpenEuphoria

Re: Decision on . or :

• Posted by yuku <yuku at i?itek.com> May 07, 2008
• 664 views

Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
> We have heard mainly from those opposing the . in favor of : ... I am going
> to step aside and I would like to propose that anyone who wishes for the .
> over
> the : speak up on this post. If no viable arguments exist for . over : in one
> weeks time, then we close the discussion and : stays.

Hehe then I will speak up here for voting for the dot.

Remember that we will use namespace crazier than ever due to the new stdlib.
Maybe about a third to half of the lines will have keywords with namespacing.

Another approach is we enable both . and : then deprecate one of them
on the next major version (Eu 5.0). In PHP 4, to get a character from a string
[] can be used. But in PHP 5 [] is deprecated (but can be used) and {} 
is encouraged to be used. However people still uses [] so in PHP 6 the {} 
is deprecated and [] is encouraged back :D

So if we enable : and . for Eu 4, we can see which is more used and deprecate
one of them in Eu 5. How do you think?