Before anyone gets all hyper, my point is *not* to introduce :>, but to
explain that it is in fact technically feasible to extend the definition
of namespaces later to add support for non-class elements and it would
work just fine.
It is, however, not going to be possible to do this post-5.3 without the
change above.
Damn Greg, I love the way your head works :)
Thank you for being the only person to date to think "ok so we start low and
then expand" and have some clue as to what "expand" might mean, and the
restrictions it might put on whatever is done now.
The main concern I have with namespace support is that it shouts "leave it
'til 6.0" at me because it's really not there yet, even at conceptual level.
I'm not the only one thinking this way. To quote jvlad (the person with no
name) in an off-list exchange, "language syntax should be developed after
the philosophy, not before, and what people still did not agree of is the
philosophy of the namespaces."
I seriously think he's right.
Maybe we should all just step back at this point and consider the phrase
"third time lucky"?
- Steph
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