[REBOL] Re: What language am I looking for?
From: kenneth:nwinet at: 15-May-2001 7:13
I really do have to get to work guys, but you have such great comments...
> > > In my opinion, it is ok to overwrite words...
> >
> > Yes it is ok, but does it put more or less burden on the
> > programmer?...
> >
> > Here's an example of what I mean... If we change the default to no
> > reassignment we could use another symbol for explicit reassignment.
> >
> > word: [to assign]
> > word:: [to reassign]
> >
> > But I've always found double colons to be ugly. Any thoughts?
> >
>
> We could go the other way and tackle the problem ourselves; leave
> the colon suffix as is and try something like the following (where
> the "p" presumably stands for "protected" or "paranoid" or even
> "possibly"):
The danger as I see it, is modifying something that has a certain elegance
into something that will not be used. For instance in the article
(http://www.sweb.cz/LMecir/rep.html) it uses the degree symbol where I use
the double colon above. I would have two objections to that... 1) where is
the degree symbol on my keyboard. 2) same as the first, I chose double
colon because it seemed the least intrusive (although in general I dislike
double anything notation, it does make it easier to type and provides a
direct connection to the single colon notation)
Another example. I like the fact that C# has replace all the various
notation with the dot.notation In Rebol the / is somewhat the equivalent
and after my initial hesitation/orientation it seems perfectly natural to
me.
I think it matters.
Thanks again, I'll respond to your earlier post later today.
Ken.
