Quick comparison of two Namespaces proposals

Göran Krampe goran at krampe.se
Wed Sep 19 07:56:53 UTC 2007


Hi!

> Hi Chris,
>
>> Even in todays phat images, name collisions are the 1% case, so the
>> solution should have the benefit of being invisible 99% of the time,
>> and handling the problem as simply and elegantly as possible that 1%
>> of the time.  Göran's approach seems to do this.
>
> You could argue that for most of the constructs in the image.
>
> Almost all classes use the default Metaclass hierarchy. Should we remove
> those?
> Almost all classes are pretty shallow subclasses of Object: Should we
> limit the image to a depth of 3 or 4?
>
> What is requires is a really eleganct unconstrined solution which is
> transparent for 99% of the cases but entirely open to modifications for
> the 1%.
> The Metaclass implementation is a good example of how this can be done.
> Göran's solution does not satisfy these criteria.

Please elaborate the criteria you mention.

regards, Göran




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