On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 13:37:38 +1000, Alexander Johannesen
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| > In other words, can you formulate a use case where the syntactic
| > device of colonified names - and the processing burden that comes
| > with it - is necessary?
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| Define 'necessary'.
Materially implied; sine qua non.
| I work in templating environments where support for similar things
| are distinguished by namespaces.
Sounds like an attribute could have done the job.
| Necessary? I *can* live without them. But they're awfully handy in
| what I do.
Yes, toolsets matter. But that wasn't the question, of course.