On Apr 16, 2008, at 2:50 AM, Yuh-Ruey Chen wrote:
I agree. I don't see why there should be multiple syntaxes that are as
concise as each other and both have about equal precedent (AS3 vs.
E4X).
If in some futuer spec, properties can inhabit multiple namespaces,
then
we can consider the |ns1 ns2 ... var foo| syntax again.
The syntaxes are not equally concise, not only because :: is heavier
visually and in terms of keyboard input (two shifted chars) than
spaces. Consider
ns var foo, bar;
vs.
var ns::foo, ns::bar;
It's true you can't distribute one type across several variables:
var foo:T, bar:T;
but that's not a reason to restrict namespace syntax per se.
Cases of ns including public, protected, private, and internal may be
the most useful ones for this distributive syntax, but are those
namespaces? Either way, the ns var foo syntax is more concise.
/be
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