Le 2011-11-21 à 22:09:00, IOhannes m zmoelnig a écrit :
and i argue that it's a bad idea to introduce whitespace as namespace
delimiter in a language that already uses whitespace as token/atom
separator.
It's good if you want to implement the new functionality as one big class
while pretending that it's many small classes to people who want that ;)
i cannot remember any other complang, that uses whitespace as namespace
delimiter, most likely because virtually all languages already use
whitespace to separate tokens.
Tcl has two different namespace mechanisms, the ::-separated one, called
«namespaces» actually were introduced after the space-separated one, which
is called «ensembles» nowadays. Space is also a token-separator in Tcl,
and this makes the function name be the first argument of the call to the
ensemble that is posing as a function. That's just like in Pd. I think Tcl
has had that for about 20 years.
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