Allison Randal via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> PMC Class name IDs ... will require a dot in front
My preference is to eliminate the dot in classname IDs. Lodge your
objections now, before it's made fact in 0.4.9.
Allison
I actually prefer the dot. I don't like the possible ambiguity between
types and local variables:
.local string MyClass
MyClass = '...'
$P0 = new MyClass # is this a type or a string?
Capitalized variable names may be rare and/or bad practice, but it's
bound to happen. There was talk on #parrot about how this still
conflicts with macros, but those are rarer than variables.
Also, if we decide that anything starting with a dot that doesn't have
parens is a type, I could write:
$I0 = typeof $P0
if $I0 == .Foo goto bar
I know we're not optimizing PIR for human readability, but I've
written a lot of it, so I appreciate the little things. :)
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Matt Diephouse
http://matt.diephouse.com
