I'm not arguing in theory. In fact, we've heard very few such
complaints, so it's a non-issue. Maybe it will be one day - just not
today.

BTW, I am talking about Squeak specifically, not about Smalltalk
generally. VW does have namespaces, and they might or might not be happy
with them. No idea really.

For now, Squeak has well over 1000 classes in the image, and nothings
blown up yet ;-)

Daniel

JOEL SHELLMAN <joelhelenshellman at comcast.net> wrote:
> > This is especially dumb because in the Squeak world, almost nobody is
> > actually complaining about problem 2 interfering with their day to day
> > life. Some people fantasize about how important it is, but we don't
> > really see the problem in practice.
> 
> Really? I've had to deal with #2 above all the time in the Java world. 
> What is it about smalltalk that would make this less an issue? When 
> you're working with hundreds or even thousands of classes (which 
> happens often enough), it would be crazy to have to have them all named 
> differently without namespaces, wouldn't it?
> 
> -joel