On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 6:49 AM, jerry gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Andrew Whitworth via RT
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Wed Jul 30 11:57:39 2008, coke wrote:
>>> PDD19 lists this as deprecated now, changing from an [RFC] to
>>> [DEPRECATED], re-opening from stalled.
>>
>> The big hangup for this ticket is that various parts of PCT and the
>> CodeString PMC do not support empty brackets, and therefore PCT does not
>> emit ".namespace []" in these situations. Since PCT is one of the
>> biggest producers of PIR code, we obviously can't move forward on the
>> deprecation of this feature until CodeString is updated to emit "[]" for
>> an empty namespace instead of just saying ".namespace".
>>
>> I know pmichaud was talking about a major rewrite of PGE in the future,
>> maybe this change could be included in the laundry list of things to do
>> during that time?
>>
> since ".namespace " and ".namespace []" mean the same thing, i don't
> see a reason this can't be converted in trunk and piecemeal. it's
> already listed as deprecated, so it's just a matter of tuits. i think
> i have some. am i alone?
>
i've committed one-line changes to pge and tge that seem to have
modified the behavior of .namespace with the root namespace to emit
empty brackets in r32051. if this can be verified independently, this
ticket can be closed.
~jerry
