Namespaces (At Long Last)

2005-12-01 Thread Matt Diephouse
After many months and lots of work, I'm happy to present you with the latest namespace spec draft. Comments are most welcome: to quote Chip, "The rest of the discussion would benefit from more eyes." Thanks, -- matt diephouse http://matt.diephouse.com Synopsis - Languages should contain th

PIR methods and local variables occupy the same 'namespace'

2005-12-01 Thread Allison Randal
I realize this is a side effect of the fact that method names are actually strings, but it's an unfortunate result. If I have a little bit of code that calls a method without quotes around the name of the method, it calls the method (prints out "Boojum"), exactly as expected: .sub main :m