On Sep 20, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Michael van der Gulik wrote:

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> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Ross Boylan <ross at biostat.ucsf.edu>  
> wrote:
> I'm starting some new projects, one on squeak and the other on  
> seaside.
> Both use magma, and the latter will probably use the pharo-based  
> images,
> since seaside is using that as a development platform.
>
> Is there any namespace or similar mechanism that it would be advisable
> to use?
>
> Not really. People usually prefix their class names to avoid naming  
> collisions.
>
> I'm developing a namespaces architecture that will run on Squeak. It  
> works and I'm writing namespaced code using it, but it is not ready  
> for general use. If people are interested, I could concentrate my  
> efforts on making it usable, but so far I've seen more disinterest  
> than interest.
>
> http://gulik.pbworks.com/Namespaces - including links to an image.

I think this work is important for more wide-spread acceptance of  
Squeak Smalltalk and its forks. I know it is only anecdotal evidence,  
but one of the first things I missed when starting an actual project  
was namespaces. After using languages that have support for  
namespaces, using the widely accepted practice of "just prefixing your  
classes with a two letter prefix" seems quaint and archaic. While that  
practice gets the job done, it's a turn-off to me, and I imagine that  
others coming to the language feel the same.

So while you may be getting disinterest from the established  
community, again, I think that it would boost the popularity and  
acceptance by experienced programmers coming to Smalltalk from other  
'namespaced' languages.

DZ

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