Quick comparison of two Namespaces proposals

Michael van der Gulik mikevdg at gmail.com
Thu Oct 4 09:02:12 UTC 2007


On 10/4/07, Jason Johnson <jason.johnson.081 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/18/07, goran at krampe.se <goran at krampe.se> wrote:
> >
> > This reasoning makes no real sense to me. Why would multiple levels be
> > "better"? Are we afraid of running out of namespace names? IMHO the
> > proliferation of namespaces and hierarchies of them in other languages
> > (like Java) is more based on the fact that they are used for
> > organisational purposes.
>
> Well my reasoning is simple:  we have effectively a flat namespace
> now, and it doesn't seem to be enough.  If we add just one more level
> then we increase our scale by quite a bit but you still have the
> siltation like:



<snip>

If there was anything important in the rest of your email, could you
summarise it for me? I'm not going to read the whole thing.

Gulik.

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