Quick comparison of two Namespaces proposals

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Tue Sep 18 16:21:55 UTC 2007


On Sep 18, 2007, at 18:09 , Jason Johnson wrote:

> Oh no, are people really so strongly for ::?

I'm rather strongly against ".". And not only because the dot is  
already too overloaded in Smalltalk.

Dot-notation is becoming ubiquitous in "pop CS" to the point where  
people don't even admit there are alternatives. In one German state  
teaching "dot notation" to kids is made mandatory by the school  
administration, ruling out the use of Smalltalk as a teaching  
language. I kid you not.

Having it creep into Squeak would make this individual sad. If this  
means anything to anybody ;)

- Bert -





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