Re: Direction for the Function Renaming Effort
| From: | Sterling Hughes | Date: | Thu, 08 Feb 2001 14:09:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Direction for the Function Renaming Effort | ||
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> yep. :) I was just joking. But I _can_ actually imagine
> a language based on static classes. You can tell the dogs
> of war that they need not to worry about this, because
> it's just like functions, and for novices there's no
> difference between _ and ::. Use underscore, dot or to
> colons, WTF.
>
> (I don't know whether such a design would be implemetable
> or anything, just looking at it from to user land. Besides,
> this is going OT.)
>
Well, it looks like Zak's been reading the ML archives.
The original proposal can be found here:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-dev&m=96056798011005&w=2
I think the main reason against it is that it would make things slower,
still, its an option---
-Sterling