Squeak and Namespaces

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Tue Nov 28 21:55:12 UTC 2006


+1

- Bert -

On Nov 28, 2006, at 22:52 , Mikael Kindborg wrote:

> Hi.
>
> Göran gave a demo of the namespace system at a SWESUG meeting, and its
> was clean and easy to understand. You just name your classes as if you
> would have prefixed them, like this:
>
> Prefix::ClassName
>
> The tools hide the prefix unless it is needed to disambiguate a name.
> There is no need to use the namespace prefixes, the namespace system
> works fine together with the existing global namespace.
>
> Would be a good idea to put this into the next release.
>
> Best, Micke
>
> On 11/21/06, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>> On Nov 21, 2006, at 17:32 , Aaron Reichow wrote:
>>
>> > Ahoy!
>> >
>> > I know this might sound like a naive question... But why haven't we
>> > implemented namespaces yet?  I'm sure there have been some
>> > attempts- but what is the status of namespaces in Squeak?
>>
>> You can download the latest incarnation of Namespaces from Squeakmap
>>
>>         http://map.squeak.org/package/f88f4752-c4a5-42bf-a613- 
>> f7d2a4f48cff
>>
>> There has been a lot of discussion, but I think most agree now that
>> this is such a simple approach that it might be worth adopting. There
>> is a presentation somewhere explaining it, I'm sure Göran will dig it
>> out if nobody beats him to it.
>>
>> - Bert -
>>
>>
>>
>>
>





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