I believe that it would be Alan's own invention?

http://users.erols.com/alangrimes/UCE/

Alan: could you point me to the bit in that rather large design document that is relevant to Namespaces?

Michael.

On 12/6/06, J J <azreal1977@hotmail.com> wrote:
Any link for newbies like myself? :)

>From: Alan Grimes <agrimes@speakeasy.net>
>Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers
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>To: The general-purpose Squeak developers
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>Subject: Namespaces; for the record
>Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:13:13 -0500
>
>For the record, I think namespaces are gay. =P
>
>They're one of the reasons C++ sucks.
>I now deeply regret not speaking up against traits which is now causing
>the obvious problems as people begin to try to use them.
>
>The best solution to the problem is to implement something along the
>lines of my Sphere operating system that I came up with five years ago.
>Squeak used to have a large subset of Sphere functionality in the form
>of the class Environment. Use that and partition the system into usable
>chunks. -- it really is the best solution. =)