Re: Re: Namespaces: Technical proposal

Oliver Grätz wrote:

Nope. Parentheses are a totally different thing here. Adding mandatory whitespace means giving syntactic meaning to something that normally never should have it. Meaningful whitespace is really evil. On the other side parentheses are already there. They are an existing concept of scoping evaluation. The idea simply consists of not having namespaces inside the ternary:

while i agree that the () approach is less bad than the whitespace one it is still "bad enough" from an language orthogonally point of view ... -- Hartmut Holzgraefe, Senior Support Engineer . MySQL AB, www.mysql.com