[GOODIE] Namespaces-gk

goran.krampe at bluefish.se goran.krampe at bluefish.se
Fri Apr 16 07:44:32 UTC 2004


Avi Bryant <avi at beta4.com> wrote:
> On Apr 15, 2004, at 2:12 PM, goran.krampe at bluefish.se wrote:
> >> After the various discussions about namespace granularity, I also
> >> wonder at the choice to encourage the user (through the class creation
> >> templates) to have one namespace per top-level category.  I'm not sure
> >> exactly what we'll want in the long run, but this is probably too
> >> fine-grained a default.
> >
> > Yes, that may be so. We could try to remember the one used when 
> > creating
> > the previous class.
> 
> I think this should be determined by the current LookupContext, say, 
> LookupContext>>defaultNamespaceForSubclassOf:inCategory:.  That way you 
> could implement a default policy that did whatever you liked (same 
> namespace as superclass, same namespace as existing classes in the same 
> category), but leave the door open to things like a NamespaceBrowser 
> that provided a more specific context.

Ah! Of course. Thanks.
 
> Avi

regards, Göran



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