On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 12:05:18PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 26.04.19 23:09, mick crane wrote: > > I did wonder if was some scheme I was unaware of. [...] > More the opposite. i.e. make the tail end of the long::name::thingy > identifiable in a _restricted_ scope. The :: nomenclature first appeared > (to my eyes) in C++ several decades ago. For perl to adopt an existing > convention is a step forward for the language. Many languages have adopted the double-colon as a scope resolution operator (Tcl, Ruby, I think PHP too). Some languages don't need it, because scope resolution is delegated to an already existing mechanism (e.g. object member resolution -- e.g. Lua, Python, the Lisps). Cheers -- tomás
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