On Nov 26, 8:42 am, Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > XahLeewrote: > >> The IT community has enough trouble getting a few ISPs to upgrade their > >> DNS software. How are you going to get millions of general users to > >> upgrade? > > > alright, that's speaks for Javascript. > > > But how's that apply to, say, Scheme lisp, Emacs lisp, PHP? > > Think before you write. It's exactly the same thing. How would you get all > Emacs users in the world to upgrade?
Hi Stefan, try not to be a moron. In the case of javascript, it involves web servers and clients (web browsers). In the case of Scheme Lisp or Emacs Lisp, there's no such server/client issue. There is still the compatibilty issue, but not the same scenario as javascript. As compatibility issue, that doesn't just apply to namespaces but to any othe function or change in the language. And as you know, language changes all the time, in big or small dosages. Small changes happens almost every release. Major changes happens every few years (e.g. Java versions thru the year, Perl4 to perl5, each iteration of Scheme's RnRS) So, in general, backward compatibility does not fully answer the question of the no namespace problem. Even if it does, the detail or reason is not given in the above and is not something obvious at least to me. Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
