Hi Göran,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/5/20 Göran Krampe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:goran@krampe.se">goran@krampe.se</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On 05/20/2010 07:11 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:<br>
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On 5/20/2010 10:08 AM, Eliot Miranda wrote:<br>
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Or of course a derivative reinvention. I'm ignorant of other namespace<br>
attempts in Squeak. Has something close to the above scheme been tried<br>
before?<br>
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Clearly you are ;-) Entire wars have been waged about whether it should<br>
be period or colon.<br>
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Ehm... Eliot, what you describe sound very close to my Namespace implementation available on SqueakMap and also written up:<br>
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<a href="http://swiki.krampe.se/gohu/27" target="_blank">http://swiki.krampe.se/gohu/27</a><br>
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...see especally:<br>
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<a href="http://swiki.krampe.se/gohu/32" target="_blank">http://swiki.krampe.se/gohu/32</a><br>
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And I think period is bad, it blends too much with sequencing, I personally think double colon looks the best and stands out. And is used in both C++ and Perl AFAIK.<br>
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Also, one of the GSoC projects is "cross platform namespaces", but I am not yet sure which direction that will take.<br>
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regards, Göran<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Cool. I'll take a look. It seems to me that this approach is very light-weight w.r.t. system changes. Monticello works unaffected, etc. There are minor tweaks to SystemDictionary and whatever subclass of SharedPool a NamespaceSharedPool is, but that's it. It appears one doesn't even have to modify the compiler. e.g. imports can be handled in NamespaceSharedPool. So I like the minimality.</div>
<div><br></div><div>best</div><div>Eliot</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">PS. I am not "pushing" for my Namespaces solution/implementation because I don't generally feel "the pain", but I do tend to remind people about it when the subject comes up. Perhaps in a few more years people will start warming up :)<br>
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