Namespaces and forks - An outsiders view
Aaron Gray
angray at beeb.net
Wed Feb 16 03:44:54 UTC 2005
Any attempt at adding namespaces to Squeak should be a fork until such times
as it has demonstrated good and has earned its reputation amongst examiners
from the main community. It has to demonstrate a sound and solid system that
is better than the existing Squeak, this will take time and several
versions.
In my opinion namespaces and modules/packages are a necessary compication
for proper growth of Squeak, the versioning problems are a sign that Squeak
is growing up (having its teen age) and as a result needs a higher order of
rational to mature such as namespaces and modularity.
Once (if) namespaces/modules are in place everyone will wonder what the fuss
was all about and will be much happier.
My only worries are the syntax, it should be a good one, otherwise people
will not want to use it.
Just my $0.02 worth.
Aaron
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