A little namespace "proposal"

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Tue Apr 20 06:35:49 UTC 2004


>> I have another question concerning the difference you want to do
>> between environment and namespace. I do not understand why we could 
>> not
>> only use #environment to get the namespace of the class. Else we will
>> have two concepts that are not the same but not different.
>
> Well, IMHO right now we have only a half concept. Environment as it
> looks today isn't usable AFAIK. But I agree.

Hi goran

I was not talking abou thte class environment but the method 
environment and the instvar (if there is one).


>
>> as a class know its environment this is the perfect place to hook the
>> namespace.
>
> And it is what my first code that I published also does.

Ok sorry I got no time to have a look at it in this moment.

>
>> If this is not the case I would really like to understand.
>
> Well, one reason not to use it is if the code actually is healthier
> without that instvar altogether. I don't know the answer to that yet. 
> My
> current code just reuses it as you say.

Ok this seems good to me.

>
>> Stef
>
> regards, Göran
>




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