On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 20:35:40 +0000, Ingo Blechschmidt wrote: > Hi, > > on #perl6, we were wondering how to use() modules from foreign > languages which have an incompatible identifier syntax. E.g.: > > use perl5:Foo::Bar; # fine, no problem > > # Load JavaScript modules from JSAN > use jsan:Test.Simple; # should we simply accept the dot, or... > use jsan:Test::Simple; # ask users to write this?
In my opinion we translate the foreign namespace into a perlish one... It's more "at home", and at some point some language which uses syntax errors for package qualifiers (Acme::Don't, anyone?) is obund to pop up, and then it'll be just inconsistent. -- () Yuval Kogman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0xEBD27418 perl hacker & /\ kung foo master: /me groks YAML like the grasshopper: neeyah!!!!!!
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