<div dir="ltr">It's an implementation of namespaces. In other languages, at the top of your file, you'll often see things like...<div><br></div><div style>#include <math.h></div><div style><br></div><div style>
or</div><div style><br></div><div style>require "Foo"</div><div style><br></div><div style>or</div><div style><br></div><div style>import x.y.z</div><div style><br></div><div style>Environments basically does that for Smalltalk. It's a way of breaking up the global namespace into smaller namespaces which don't ordinarily need to share state or behavior. I haven't used it yet myself though, so that's the limit of what I know about it, and I may be wrong about the various details.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Bruce Prior <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:b.prior@ieee.org" target="_blank">b.prior@ieee.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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