On Dec 13, 2005, at 4:08 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Like Java, C, etc., only the bare minimum would be in the "toplevel". So send/receive would be like [pd/send] or [pd/receive] or maybe [core/send], or whatever.
What do you mean "etc." ? Most other languages I know that have namespaces use the toplevel namespace to hold the core of the language.
I'd like to see what kind of program you could write without any #includes in C, or without any imports in Java. Not a whole lot. Java, for example, has nothing in the toplevel namespace, even Object is in java.lang.Object.
Personally, I am not a fan of abbreviations, I think they are messy and provide basically no real benefit.
"may all your [t a a] be replaced by [trigger anything anything]" is an ancient chinese curse.
I already often do using [trigger anything anything], it would be a minor change.
.hc
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