Import concerns revisited

[Derek Parnell]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:43:17 +1000, Regan Heath <regan at netwin.co.nz> wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 19:15:29 +0000 (UTC), John Reimer  
> <John_member at pathlink.com> wrote:
>> In article <e8rhud$1cca$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Deewiant says...
>>>
>>> John Reimer wrote:
>>>> Also, for selective import, I think using "from" instead of "with"  
>>>> looks much
>>>> better.
>>>>
>>>
>>> "from" is a quite common variable name though, so introducing it as a  
>>> keyword
>>> would probably break a lot of code.
>>>
>>
>>
>> It is?  I don't see "from" very often.  Seems like an unusual name for a
>> variable.  Saying it will break "a lot" of code seems like an  
>> exaggeration.
>
> You don't write a mail server ;)

I don't use multi-character identifier names that don't have at least one  
uppercase character. ;)


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Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia