On Dec 21, 2007 3:53 PM, Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Klaas-Jan Stol via RT wrote: > > On Sun Dec 16 21:11:34 2007, coke wrote: > >> From PDD 19: > >> > >> NOTE: The use of C<::> in identifiers is deprecated. > >> > > what exactly does this mean? > > > > I take it that "::" can still appear in typenames, as in "PAST::Op" > > Yes, that's still fine. In fact, any character that can be represented > in any character set that Parrot supports is valid in string names. > > > but > > not, for instance like so: > > > > local int some::var > > > > Is that it? > > Yes, it's deprecated in bare identifiers. The '::' was added as a > special case for Perl identifiers, so we either had to add special cases > for all the languages, or just declare that if you want a sub, class, > etc. with "interesting" characters you need to give it a string name.
there are some tests that explicitly use this feature; don't remember which ones, but I found some yesterday. I guess these tests can be removed (as their sole purpose is to test something that's going to be removed) so, shall I remove those tests? kjs > > The second option makes more sense, as the set of "languages that run on > Parrot" is open-ended, and the bare identifiers aren't accessible to > user-level code anyway. > > Allison >
