From: dblack@...
Date: 2003-02-16T02:01:47+09:00
Subject: Re: module This::Encompassing::That

Hi --

On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

> On Friday, February 14, 2003, 2:00:56 PM, Bil wrote:
>
> > dblack@candle.superlink.net wrote:
> >>
> >> so there's no way to determine from the :: notation what you're
> >> intending to create.
>
> > Excellent point.
>
> However, since the idea of the "module" keyword is to introduce a new
> module or reuse an existing one, I don't see why the OP's idea
> couldn't work.

I assumed he meant a kind of autovivification, so that the first
line in a program could be:

  module A::B::C

which would suffer from the ambiguity I mentioned.  But if it's
incremental -- i.e., if the above requires that A and B already exist
and be a valid path to a new module definition (namely, C) -- that
seems OK.


David

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