Re: namespaces ambiguity

On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 09:35:15PM +0200, Stig Sther Bakken wrote: > > I just started playing around with the parser to support the > > namespaces syntax Stig laid out in his RFC. I think I've thought of an > > ambiguity (with constants) which makes me wonder how feasible the > > proposed syntax is. > > Consider the following expression: > > $test?FOO:BAR:BARBARA > > > > Would this mean that the person meant $test?(FOO):(BAR:BARBARA) or > > $test?(FOO:BAR):BARBARA? > > Okay, is there another character we can use? Doesn't look that way. > Maybe we need to use two characters then? Since both "::" and "->" > are taken, "//" is the best suggestion I can come up with. In what context would '//' not indicate the start of a comment? -- Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu) . Information Technology (2001) http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/ : Computer Science House Member