On Sunday, November 23, 2014 12:00:15 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Rick should ask himself why virtually every single language, from compiled > languages like Ada, C, Pascal and Java, to interpreted languages like bash, > all use search paths instead of explicit paths. > > Hint: the answer is not that every single language designer in the world is > a moron.
In all fairness to Rick I can think of two languages -- Erlang and Emacs-lisp. They probably dont do what he wants (I dont really know what he wants -- his verbiage is too much for me to get through) however they come close. Erlang warns about shadowing system-names Elisp has a function -- list-load-path-shadows -- that informs about all shadowings in the system. In a way this makes sense because for a system to warn about shadowing is a trivial cost. For a programmer to keep track of which toes are being stepped on is an error-prone headache. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
