[SVN] Javascript Punctuation Scopes

[David Powers]

hilarious - I just suggested inline for punctuation...


On 8/23/06, Chris Thomas <chris at cjack.com> wrote:
> On Aug 22, 2006, at 3:34 PM, Mietek Bąk wrote:
>
> > On 22/8/2006, at 21:16, David Powers wrote:
> >
> >> the verbosity is partially why I want a datatype scope.  That
> >> said... how about:
> >>
> >> meta.data.(array|hash|record) - used only for in-code data
> >> descriptions (literal arrays, etc)
> >
> > I believe "structure" would be a better name than "data".  "data"
> > is too general; everything can be argued to be data, while
> > "structure" implies that the block being scoped has some internal
> > structure.
>
> You can make that sort of argument for any single word, though. The
> language is just not precise enough. I would argue, for example, that
> an array is not a structure. To completely avoid ambiguity, you need
> to use a phrase or invent your own terminology.
>
> I think 'data' is actually appropriate historical usage for source
> code, but I'd suggest 'inline'.
>
>         meta.inline.(array|hash|record)
>         meta.inline-data.(array|hash|record) ?
>         meta.data.(array|hash|record)
>
> or even remove 'meta':
>
>         data.(array|hash|record)
>         inline.(array|hash|record)
>         inline-data.(array|hash|record)
>
> Note that the current top level string.* hierarchy should probably be
> placed under the proposed datatype hierarchy:
>
>         inline-data.string.(double-quoted|whatever)
>
> Chris
>
>
>
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