Re: [Concept] Flip relative function lookup order (global, then local)

From: Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 02:23:20 +0000
Subject: Re: [Concept] Flip relative function lookup order (global, then local)
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> On Aug 23, 2024 at 2:30 PM,  <Ilija Tovilo (mailto:[email protected])>  wrote:
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>  On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 8:19 PM John Coggeshall  <[email protected]>  wrote:  >  
> >  1. People who don't think BC is a problem, and would like to drop  >  either the
> global or local lookup entirely, requiring disambiguation.  >   >  There is also an option of
> swapping the priority, making local lookups secondary to global lookups -- and to override that
> behavior you would require disambiguation. It doesn't have to mean drop the lookup entirely.
> Right, that's my proposal. My point was that few (nobody except you and me, I believe) showed
> particular excitement for this approach.  
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 There is also the 5th (or 4th?) option of making built-ins special and not require them nor locals
be prefixed, and instead require global userland functions to be prefixed.  
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-Mike
  
     


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