Re: [RFC] Treat namespaced names as single token, relax reserved keyword restrictions

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 9:39 AM Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote: > >> In a mail that probably went to everyone's spam folder, I asked for >> opinions on allowing use of .\Foo as an alternative to Foo in the >> current namespace, thus reducing friction with reserved keywords even >> more. Any thoughts on that now? > > > How would .\Foo be different from the currently existing namespace\Foo? (Note that > "namespace" here is to be taken literally, not as "put the current namespace > here"). > I didn't know you could do that! I don't think I've ever seen it used, maybe because there's been little advantage over just Foo? I guess it only matters if you also import Foo? For what it's worth, .\Foo would be significantly shorter than namespace\Foo and probably more intuitive to understand as well. Furthermore, if you were to create a namespace called "Namespace" (don't judge! ;-)), which I would assume would be possible should this RFC be implemented, we could avoid namespace\Namespace\Foo :-D Thanks for the feedback, it was just an idea - could be a new RFC some other day. Thanks, Jakob