On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 03:23:56PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 01:57:58PM -0700, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> > Relative is the usual apposite to absolute, but we have a three-way
> > logic here, so appositives don't really work. I think that "hll" is the
> > best I can think of, and given the existing ".HLL" directive, its meaning
> > is immediately clear:
> >
> > .HLL 'perl5', perl5_group
> > .namespace ['Foo']
> >
> > $P0 = get_global 'x' # ['perl5';'Foo';'x']
> > $P0 = get_global ['Bar'], 'x' # ['perl5';'Foo';'Bar';'x']
> >
> > $P0 = get_hll_global 'x' # ['perl5';'x']
> > $P0 = get_hll_global ['Corge'], 'x' # ['perl5';'Corge';'x']
> >
> > $P0 = get_abs_global 'x' # ['x']
> > $P0 = get_abs_global ['parrot'], 'x' # ['parrot';'x']
>
> What's the status on the above...has it been blessed/implemented yet?
> This looks to me like exactly what is needed/desired for the various
> HLL's I'm working with.
Allison has blessed it except for the detail of the "_hll_" in the HLL
selection. I haven't started implementing it yet, though nothing stands
in my way technically.
I've suggested that get_namespace follow exactly the same pattern, but
so far she hasn't commented on that suggestion at all.
BTW I expect find_global to keep working for a good while. The only thing
that may change incompatibly in _any_ of this is the meaning of:
PMC = get_namespace KEY,STR
which currently starts from the HLL root but which I'm proposing should
start at the current namespace. *If* that additional proposal goes forward,
any place you currently have the above, you would just change it to:
PMC = get_hll_namespace KEY,STR
PS: None of this is in any PDD yet -- not a complaint, just an observation. :-)
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Chip Salzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
