From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-04-10T11:58:59+09:00
Subject: Re: method search rule in 2.0?

Hi --

On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Lionel Thiry wrote:

>>> And what is your opinion, now, if you take for granted that "::" semantic 
>>> is redefined?
>> 
>> 
>> I think it's much too big a change for something like this.  It would
>> also lead to huge amounts of code breakage.  (I don't use :: for
>> method calls myself, but it's used a fair amount.)
>> 
>
> I use it for constants. Does anybody use it for something else?

ruby/1.8$ grep "::[a-z_]" `find . -name "*.rb"` | wc -l
    1194

:-)

> If not, then only constants would be affected. And the namespace semantic 
> wouldn't change much how things work for constants, don't you think?

I just think it would be awfully confusing.


David

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David A. Black
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