J2 proposal: keyword
Peter Hansen
peter at engcorp.com
Mon Aug 23 15:06:09 EDT 2004
Oliver Fromme wrote:
> So, FWIW, I think both "using" and "with" are fine,
> although both of those remind me of completely unrelated
> things.
>
> ("Using" as in the "print using" statement of certain
> ancient dialects of BASIC which was used for formatted
> output, as well as the "use" statement in perl to import
> a module.
I would call this a good precedent. Or at least I'd
say that they choose the word well for that purpose,
and our purpose here is very similar.
(For those that don't recall this, I believe it was
similar to if not exactly like the following, where
it functions rather like a decorator in the sense
of transforming the usual function in a certain way:
PRINT USING '$###.##', total_dollars
)
-Peter
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