Q: pdd21 relative vs absolute

[Leopold Toetsch]

A bunch of namespace opcodes and methods could work absolute or
relative. E.g.

$P0 = get_namespace ["Foo"; "Bar"]

Where should the lookup start?

Is this to be considered absolute (from namespace root), absolute from
the current HLL setting, or relative from the current namespace?

Thanks,
leo

[Joshua Isom]

Having it be absolute makes more sense to me, but there likely will be
people who want relative. Maybe something like:

$P0 = get_namespace[;"Foo";"Bar"]

Where the empty part mean "current namespace here." Of course, then
it'd be really confusing because it's the opposite of pathnames on
unix. Although if [;"Foo";"Bar"] is absolute, it makes sense as well
because the default namespace is "unnamed" and it'd be more convenient
than writing ["";"Foo";"Bar].

[Matt Diephouse]

Leopold Toetsch <l...@toetsch.at> wrote:
> A bunch of namespace opcodes and methods could work absolute or
> relative. E.g.
>
> $P0 = get_namespace ["Foo"; "Bar"]
>
> Where should the lookup start?

Absolute. If people want relative lookups, I'd consider adding another opcode:

$P1 = get_namespace # this exists - get the current namespace
$P2 = get_namespace $P1, ["Foo"; "Bar"] # this doesn't - lookup
Foo::Bar in $P1 (the current namespace)

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