On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 10:25:29AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: : best to go with a unified hierarchy/variable namespace, so we'll : postpend a NUL to the end of non-variables.
Well, I'd prepend the null just to reduce confusion (or rather, to force the confusion earlier), but guess I really don't care. Name mangling namespace variables is not going to be in anyone's inner loop all that terrible often. Perl folks could in theory just install a %foo:: variable that aliases to the namespace, but that only gives us easy access to our own namespaces. Mangling will let anyone get at anyone else's namespaces using their own notation. Larry
