On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Anthony Hannan wrote:

> "Brent Vukmer" <bvukmer at blackboard.com> wrote:
> > >Also, having multiple packages in the image available for
> > >analysis, that may be conflicting in (A) and therefore not both
> > >visible.
> >
> > I'm trying to imagine a sample scenario where running multiple package
> > releases in the same image would be helpful in development...
>
> I'm not saying running (although that is also possible), but looking at
> (analyzing) two different versions so you can see their differences and
> possibly merge them.  With (A), you would have to compare just the
> package files, since they couldn't both be loaded without one overriding
> the other.

If you're not running the code, what advantage do you have in
analysis if the objects are "real" classes/methods etc as opposed to
other (package) objects modelling them?