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Re: Net::DNS::Nameserver

From	Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Net::DNS::Nameserver
Date	2019-04-27 04:10 +0200
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On 26.04.19 23:09, mick crane wrote:
> I did wonder if was some scheme I was unaware of.
> I noticed a couple of weeks ago somebody used these "::" between words to
> identify something.
> Like in apt you have
> /var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_debian-security_dists_buster_updates_main_source_Sources
> made me think that these dots was some way of identifying a thing so that
> everything is the same over the whole wide world .
> Or something like that.

More the opposite. i.e. make the tail end of the long::name::thingy
identifiable in a _restricted_ scope. The :: nomenclature first appeared
(to my eyes) in C++ several decades ago. For perl to adopt an existing
convention is a step forward for the language.

Here's a brief exchange describing ::, the scope-resolution operator:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15649580/using-in-c

Erik

-- 
Arguing that Java is better than C++ is like arguing that grasshoppers taste
better than tree bark.                                   - Thant Tessman

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Net::DNS::Nameserver mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-04-26 13:20 +0200
  Re: Net::DNS::Nameserver Alberto Luaces <aluaces@udc.es> - 2019-04-26 13:40 +0200
    Re: Net::DNS::Nameserver mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-04-26 13:50 +0200
  Re: Net::DNS::Nameserver <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-04-26 13:50 +0200
    Re: Net::DNS::Nameserver mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-04-26 14:20 +0200
      Re: Net::DNS::Nameserver Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-04-26 14:50 +0200
    Re: Net::DNS::Nameserver Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2019-04-26 22:30 +0200
      Re: Net::DNS::Nameserver mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-04-27 00:20 +0200
        Re: Net::DNS::Nameserver Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2019-04-27 04:10 +0200
          Re: Net::DNS::Nameserver <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-04-27 09:00 +0200

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