On Mar 14, 2006, at 18:33, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 01:06:10PM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
('::' is the namespace delimiter according to pdd21 and not to be
taken
literally)
Indeed so; but the Perl and C++ usage is so ingrained that people are
still
instinctively trying to use it. So, it's time for a bigger hammer.
First, I'm modifying pdd21 to remove all occurrences of "::".
Hah - I've said that it's confusing ;-)
Second: Leo, in your copious free time (:-)) could you please tell me
whether it's feasible to add a hack to the PIR compiler so that
compiling
namespace ops, with a literal string parameter containing "::" will
throw a
warning? I don't want a runtime warning, but a compile-time warning
will
avoid trouble. (It's possible that by 1.0 we'll be able to kill the
warning, but I doubt it.)
I'll add the warning as soon as there is an answer, where all the
parrot symbols and already existing lib "globals", including PGE*,
should actually be stored into :-) Or some such. And, well, a
compile-time warning still would break a lot of tests.
Anyway: as said, specifying namespaces needs also policy decisions for
existing stuff.
The current implementation assumes in the absence of any .HLL directive
that HLL_id := 0 aka 'parrot' and namespace is '::parrot' (errr).
leo
