RE: SD5 - Namespaces

>I just asked several parser writers about the implementation difficulty
>of single versus double colons.  They said that single are easier and
>will lead to simpler, smaller parsers.

I find that somewhat questionable. At most this would require one
more lookahead (though colon currently isn't a name character, so
it probably doesn't even mean that).

Received on Thursday, 22 May 1997 09:42:18 UTC