"clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> "MessyBlob" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> > Anything that uses namespaces or class methods (or class qualifiers)
> > would do this. You might require that scripts use qualifiers though,
> > unless you can make the parser element automatically prioritise class
> > scopes based on the innermost container.
> But I've never seen it in any language before.

I suppose we could introduce a parsing layer that understands the context of
keywords, and inserts the formal scope references, for presentation to a
standard language implementation. That would allow us to retain minimal SDL
code, and still use existing (open source) elements to help with interpreting
the transformed (fully-qualified) SDL.
(Sorry I have no experience with this, so can't give detailed examples)

Also, a question: How much change is acceptable from v3.x? If v3.x SDL code will
be broadly incompatible due to syntax changes, then I'm wondering if it would be
a mistake to hold onto the legacy SDL features that would make v4.x very
difficult to implement.
(That's an open question, rather than a hard opinion either way).

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