Klaas-Jan Stol via RT wrote:
On Sun Dec 16 21:11:34 2007, coke wrote:
From PDD 19:
NOTE: The use of C<::> in identifiers is deprecated.
what exactly does this mean?
I take it that "::" can still appear in typenames, as in "PAST::Op"
Yes, that's still fine. In fact, any character that can be represented
in any character set that Parrot supports is valid in string names.
but
not, for instance like so:
local int some::var
Is that it?
Yes, it's deprecated in bare identifiers. The '::' was added as a
special case for Perl identifiers, so we either had to add special cases
for all the languages, or just declare that if you want a sub, class,
etc. with "interesting" characters you need to give it a string name.
The second option makes more sense, as the set of "languages that run on
Parrot" is open-ended, and the bare identifiers aren't accessible to
user-level code anyway.
Allison
