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Dan Sugalski  
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 More options Dec 9 2003, 8:48 pm
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From: d...@sidhe.org (Dan Sugalski)
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 18:40:44 -0500
Local: Tues, Dec 9 2003 6:40 pm
Subject: Re: [CVS ci] object stuff
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At 5:46 PM +0100 12/5/03, Leopold Toetsch wrote:

>Melvin Smith <mrjoltc...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>>  At 05:14 PM 12/5/2003 +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
>>>      set I2, P1["Foo\x00i"]   # I1 == I2

>>>gets currently the attribute idx (0) of "$Foo::i".
>>>Q: Should the assembler mangle the "Foo::i" to "Foo\0i"

>>  Something about this embedded \0 character
>>  bugs me. I know its what Dan has in the design doc but
>>  it just seems too cryptic.

>Yeah its ungly. OTOH it should be really transparent for all possible
>HLLs. And the NUL most certainly is.

I don't like it either, but the alternative is to impose an external
hierarchic structure. Which we certainly could do, though it may make
some things more difficult.

I'm more than willing to entertain arguments for and against the
hierarchic structure, but we're closing in on the point where we fix
the scheme and don't change it any more.
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                                         Dan

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