Thread: Underscores

>>But the built-in types are not identifiers, they're keywords.
If I ever make a programming language, I'll be sure to eliminate the distinction

>>Now you're starting to word your explanations like I do, and that's frightening.
At least I'm learning something from your explanations

>>Even more confusingly, a namespace is a name space, but a name space is not necessarily a namespace.
And yet, a namespace isn't one of the four name spaces?

So there's name space (abstract), four name spaces (language-defined), and any number of namespaces (user-defined), and all three are distinct concepts although interconnected in a fundamental sort of way. Got it

Prelude, you have an indescribable way of getting your point across in the most confusing manner possible.

**EDIT**
Just some housekeeping details:
-name spaces and namespaces are both examples of name spaces.
-->There is no naming conflict here because one 'name space' is in the (abstract) name space and one is in the (language-defined) name space
-in Prelude's code example, main() didn't return a value

Yeah, she'll give some info and you wont undestand it until a week later, it will just hit you,

"Oh, so its a name space..."

>At least I'm learning something from your explanations
That's no small feat.

>And yet, a namespace isn't one of the four name spaces?
A namespace name is in the tag name space.

>Prelude, you have an indescribable way of getting your point across in the most confusing manner possible.
I really do try to be clear, but I have a tendency to think in terms that people find confusing. But I'm sure you'll admit that it makes that "Aha!" moment much more satisfying when you were completely lost to begin with.

>-in Prelude's code example, main() didn't return a value
Sure it did, it returned 0 by default.

I think this covers it for C

Code:

struct test /* tag */ {
    int test; /* member */
};
void test /* ordinary */ ( ) {
    struct test foo;
    foo.test = 1;
    if ( foo.test == 1 ) goto test;
    printf( "Woo Hoo\n" );
    test: /* label */
    return;
}

>>it returned 0 by default.
Thanks for ruining it

>>A namespace name is in the tag name space.
Thanks for ruining it Oh wait, that didn't apply did it? Because I was referring to namespaces as specializations of the abstract name space, not the names of namespaces

Well, thanks Prelude for the explanation of the three name( )space's as well as the pun sparring match, and thanks to everyone else who helped out with regard to the real topic of the thread before I got sidetracked

**EDIT**
Thanks for the example Salem.