On 12/5/06, J J azreal1977@hotmail.com wrote:
Did you look at the Gemstone stuff that I reposted? It sounds like that system is close to your goals and it adds no new syntax (no dot syntax, no colons, just normal message sends afaik). And I think the security of it is nice as well since it looks at the user compiling the code and then makes the link at compile time. If you file out your changes and someone else files them in, it looks like that stuff would get rebuilt so the only security problem would be if you ship the byte codes directly, but I guess they probably have some solution for that.
Yes. I used that for inspiration on how to manage import lists. Effectively, you get the same behaviour, but with hierarchical namespaces as an optional extra.
Michael.