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Re: Should MY:: be a real symbol table?

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From:
Ken Fox
Date:
September 3, 2001 20:27
Subject:
Re: Should MY:: be a real symbol table?
Message ID:
3B944BFE.9C2F5FD7@vulpes.com
Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Good. It should. It's a scary feature, and hopefully that same fear will
> strike anyone else who uses it

But all it takes is one fool^Wbrave person to mess up somebody
else's perfectly working code. Basically I think this throws us
back to the bad old days when we only had "local".

Confining it to compile time would allow people to define
custom pragmas and import lexicals. Nat would be happy. Who would
be unhappy?

> Besides, I'm not the guy to talk to about restricting this. Take it up with
> the language guys. :)

I haven't seen an Apocalypse mention anything about it, so I'm
hoping this is just a misunderstanding. ;)

- Ken
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