Namespaces (was: Re: [ANN]A plan for 3.8/4.0...(insertdrumrollhere))

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sun Apr 4 09:02:06 UTC 2004


On 4 avr. 04, at 10:50, Lothar Schenk wrote:

> stéphane ducasse wrote:
>
>> ...the idea was you have multiple Smalltalk
>> environments (difficult to express again)....
>
> Mmm, that's something I've been idly speculating about. I don't know 
> if this
> holds up to the scrutiny of experts, but has anybody ever considered 
> the
> possibility of splitting up a Smalltalk system at the image level? It 
> is, a
> Smalltalk system should be comprised of multiple images, not just one.

No just in term of symbol. from within a classbox I only see the symbol 
(class and variables)
I defines, or I imported from other. So in each classbox I have the 
impression of a flat world
but you can have different landscape.

Stef




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