From: Iain Barnett <iainspeed@...>
Date: 2010-08-31T10:24:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Namespaces too looooooong


On 31 Aug 2010, at 02:07, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> 
> Use local vars or (scoped) contants?

Excellent, thanks. I didn't realise they could just be stuck into vars.

 a = This_is_ok
 => This_is_ok

 b = a::This_is_already_a_chore
 => This_is_ok::This_is_already_a_chore
 c = b::Wow_I_have_no_feeling_left
 => This_is_ok::This_is_already_a_chore::Wow_I_have_no_feeling_left

Brilliant. If the language designers can just nick the `where` clause from Haskell then I think Ruby will be approaching terse perfection!

On 31 Aug 2010, at 02:04, Ryan Davis wrote:

> 
> don't use them as much.
> 

Going back in time would be cool if it was in a time machine, but throwing out the good things learned over the years about things in computing seems the wrong way to do it. It's why I don't use PHP ;)

Regards,
Iain