>From: goran at krampe.se
>Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>Subject: Re: Squeak and Namespaces
>Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 21:58:49 +0200
>
>Hi!
>
>Let me rephrase that:
>
>"Comparing those two I am definitely in favor of :: - but note that the
>Gemstone style works *in my proposal too* - but then it would be a
>normal runtime lookup and not a
>compile time lookup - which *given the syntax* is pretty intuitive
>IMHO."
>

Ah I get it.  Yes that is true, their implementation is some what magical.  
Though no more magical then #ifTrue:ifFalse end up being.

>Now - if you are worried about changing syntax - I would actually
>consider the GemStone difference much more "dangerous". :)
>

Honestly, as petty as it sounds, I just care about the colons.  I look at a 
class definition and I have to see that.  To me it would feel more smalltalk 
to just see an extra "NameSpace:" keyword in the class definition and 
"(MyNameSpace at: #Component) new" for explicit class instantiation (i.e. 
when you need a class outside of your local namespace).  In fact that feels 
a *lot* more smalltalkish to me.

But anyway, that is just my opinion.  If you end up doing it can it at least 
be unloadable? :)  Nothing against you personally of course.  I just find it 
ugly.  The only thing worse would be dollar signs on the variable names or 
something.

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