Re: Roxen, Pike or by design?

2008-05-22 Thread 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

Re: Roxen, Pike or by design?

2008-05-18 Thread Bernd Schoeller
On Sat, 17 May 2008 18:10:03 +0200, Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) @ Pike (-) developers forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If local identifiers couldn't override global, you would not be able to add any global identifiers without breaking existing code. = dead language. Sorry

Re: static variables with function scope

2007-09-17 Thread Bernd Schoeller
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:45:00 +0200, Johan SundstrXm (Achtung Liebe!) @ Pike (-) developers forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I perceive it from other languages, 'static' means a really global (non object-oriented) memory location. I think this sentence is the perfect example of why