RE: [sv-ec] Re: Feedback from Freescale on name resolution issues

From: Jonathan Bromley <jonathan.bromley_at_.....>
Date: Tue Oct 23 2007 - 07:48:17 PDT
> For reference, Jonathan seems to have been inspired to (7)
> by the last paragraph of the intro to section 7.13 (Draft4).
> This is the section entitled "Array manipulation methods".

You ascribe much more inspiration than actually struck :-)
In fact, I'm embarrassed to say that I'd overlooked the
ability to rename the iterator argument for array methods.
Perhaps there was a lingering folk-memory of it....
But it's pretty good post-hoc justification - and a nice
precedent for the syntactic form.

> Also, after reviewing 7.13, I'm not sure what minor conflict
> you see in the array usage of with expressions, Jonathan.
> Can you please elaborate a bit, maybe with a small example?

My oversight again.  Having forgotten about the ability to
name the iterator, I was worrying that "item" might hide some
local variable of interest.  Even if you can't rename "item",
it's not a big deal because it's only a *local* name that 
could be hidden, and local names are easy to change as you
write the code.

> It's a bit jarring to see one form of the syntax use { }
> and the other use ( ).  Comments?

The temporary name goes in parens in both cases; it's the 
two different flavours of "with" that are at odds.
I guess we can live with the difference, especially since
the paragraph immediately after Syntax box 7-5 (top of
page 140 in draft 4) explicitly points it out.
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