Re: Roxen, Pike or by design?

[Bernd Schoeller]

Hi Marcus,

I think the confusion is not on semantics, but on the discussion level. I  
have absolutely no doubt that it is impossible to disable override of  
global identifiers by local identifiers in Pike as it currently stands. I  
fully agree with your reservations that this would create huge software  
engineering problems.

On the other hand, I have now been a member of the ECMA standardization  
committee for Eiffel for the last 5 years, and this language does not  
allow local identifiers to have the same name as global identifiers. The  
language was designed around that with very different namespacing rules  
and renaming possibilities when compared to Pike. So I had to object to  
what I perceived as "over-generalization".

Bernd