Responding to a few of these:
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Axel Rauschmayer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> - I think Python uses directories for namespace nesting, which has some pros
> and cons compared to completely abstracting the file system structure.
It's necessary to completely abstract the file-system structure, since
one of the primary use cases doesn't have a file system -- the web.
We don't want to bring server-side assumptions to the web.
> Renaming:
> - I find this syntax slightly unintuitive: import Geometry.{draw: drawShape}
> At first glance this would mean for me: rename drawShape to draw. "draw"
> feels to me like the result of the import.
This is based on the destructuring syntax, where this:
let {draw: drawShape} = ... some expression ...;
also binds the identifier |drawShape|.
> - Possible alternative: import Geometry.{draw <- drawShape} (maybe a colon is
> not a good choice here)
We want to keep this as close as possible to other syntactic
constructs in the language.
--
sam th
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