On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Jose Alberto Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: "Stefan Bodewig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> Having the "right" scoping rules may lead us to the point that >> tasks and datatype definitions are the same thing and should >> therefore follow the same placement rules. > > I would argue that independently of the scoping rules, any task that > defines something or datatype declaration shuld have the same > placement rules. This is what I wanted to say (more or less), where the "right" scoping rules would be rules that allow us to do the above. Placement rules for variable declarations and scoping rules for these variables are coupled if you want to make them easy to follow IMHO. > My point is that there will always be the posibility of new things > being declared that cannot conform with either properties nor > datatypes. I fully understand and support that point, which is why I -1ed the only option that would require hardcoding all choices upfront. Stefan
