Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | Themos Tsikas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > | > I take the evolutionary approach: if it was A Good Idea it would have > | > been copied by now. > | > | Is this the evolutionary approach, or is it just a definition of "good > | idea"? > | > | I could imagine that just nobody in the surviving environments knew about > | the idea. > > The idea of using `close paren' or that of separating system commands in > separate name space?
Neither - nor. I was referring to "evolutionary approach". I think at times (not particularly often), good ideas do not survive. Mathematica uses ?foo for )help foo <<foo for )lib foo and )read foo !foo for )sys foo But since Mathematica does not allow either of ?, <<, ! as first char of an identifier, they do not have the same problem, so using ")" as separator of name spaces doesn't make any sense. Aldor and Axiom allow all three, so ")" is a natural choice. Waldek wrote: > Also, we have at least on bug report where closing parenthesis is user input > is wrongly read as system command. I didn't see this bug report, could you send me a reference, please. Do you think using another character to distinguish name spaces would be better suited? Or would you advocate getting rid of the distinction alltogether? Martin _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
