OpenEuphoria

Re: . or : for namespace?

• Posted by CChris <christian.cuvier at ag?icul?ure.gouv.fr> May 07, 2008
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Matt Lewis wrote:
> 
> CChris wrote:
> > 
> > Mike wrote:
> > > 
> > > So, basically we have :
> > > 
> > > obsfucation OR lack of freedom + nice looking 
> > > 
> > 
> > Where?
> > Namespaces are not that many. Do you mean you don't know which identifier is
> > a namespace? Really?
> 
> And 640K should be enough for anyone.  Seriously, you can't imagine a case
> where there might be a namespace and a variable whose names collide?
> 

I can. I'd suggest removing the possibility for a variable, a routine and a
namespace to bear the same name. Would this actually break stuff? It can, but
does it?

> While we're at it, why don't we get rid of parentheses and just use square
> brackets everywhere?
> }}}
<eucode>
>     puts[1, "Hello, world!\n"]
> </eucode>
{{{

> Matt

Because we should be able, some day, to ask for value(the_string)[2].

CChris