On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Jeremy Hylton wrote: > >>>>> "GS" == Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> writes: > > GS> On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Moshe Zadka wrote: > >> This is a tool problem, and should be solved with good tools. Of > >> course, installing the corret tools in people's minds will > >> require some technological discoveries. > > GS> Bleck. Those tools are a crutch to deal with a poor language > GS> design / feature. And are those tools portable? Are they part of > GS> everybody's standard tool set? Will vi, emacs, and MS DevStudio > GS> all have those capabilities? > > Are you saying that compilers are a crutch and we should get rid of > them? I don't think you intend that, but this is a completely > straightforward tool to build. It is needed only for backwards > compatibility -- to identify scripts that depend on the changed > behavior. There is no need for vi, emacs, or devstudio to understand > what's going on. you guys are talking about different things. Jeremy is talking about a tool to warn against incompatible changes Greg is talking about a tool to identify, for each variable, what scope it belongs to. as-usual-the-answer-is-"you're-both-right"-ly y'rs, Z. -- Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il> -- 95855124 http://advogato.org/person/moshez
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