Squeak and Namespaces
Klaus D. Witzel
klaus.witzel at cobss.com
Thu Nov 30 15:49:37 UTC 2006
Hi Lex,
on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:06:54 +0100, you wrote:
...
> Practically, a Java-like solution seems pretty good. There is room
> for incremental improvement in that area, though. The generalized
> imports of Scala seem helpful, IMHO. As two examples of this (and
> attempting a Smalltalky syntax):
>
> import Core.Date -> CDate "import Core.Date, and"
> "rename it to CDate in"
> "this scope"
>
>
> import Deeply.Nested.[Package -> Pack]
> "make Pack be a shortened"
> "version of Deeply.Nested.Package"
Interesting. Then, when you ask for all references to Package and later to
Pack, what are the respective results?
Is this under the assumption that atoms in name space are unassignable
objects (like: classes); what happens when Pack := nil ?
/Klaus
>
> These are small improvements over Java, but I use them all the time.
>
> -Lex
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