Melvin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:At 05:14 PM 12/5/2003 +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote:set I2, P1["Foo\x00i"] # I1 == I2
gets currently the attribute idx (0) of "$Foo::i". Q: Should the assembler mangle the "Foo::i" to "Foo\0i"
Something about this embedded \0 character bugs me. I know its what Dan has in the design doc but it just seems too cryptic.
Yeah its ungly. OTOH it should be really transparent for all possible HLLs. And the NUL most certainly is.
I don't like it either, but the alternative is to impose an external hierarchic structure. Which we certainly could do, though it may make some things more difficult.
I'm more than willing to entertain arguments for and against the hierarchic structure, but we're closing in on the point where we fix the scheme and don't change it any more.
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