See also http://oasis.canis.uiuc.edu:8080/Oasis.16 to see a description of the structured environment approach I'm building for
Oasis, and some of the issues I've been thinking about.

This is a page within the Oasis Swiki, which I've just recently started for the purpose of organizing information about modularizing
Smalltalk. I'm hoping that if nothing else, the more dynamic access to my Oasis site will make it more likely that I will enhance it
over time.  If others care to contribute, that would be a bonus- feel free to put in some descriptions of Collage or other Smalltalk
componentization schemes- there have been a few over the years.

-les

----- Original Message -----
From: Hans-Martin Mosner <hm.mosner at cityweb.de>
To: <squeak at cs.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Sunday, July 25, 1999 7:47 AM
Subject: Re: [ENH] Help for Adding Name Space to Squeak


> For Collage, I've pondered the question of Namespaces deeply and came to the
> following conclusion:
> Classes should have a 'namespace interface' like in VW5i. It just makes a lot
> of sense.
> Namespaces should subsume Smalltalk, Undeclared and all the shared pools.
> Namespaces should be hierarchical, with Smalltalk as the root.
> Namespaces should be able to import other Namespaces completely (just as
> Classes import shared pools now).
> Namespaces should be prominently visible in the Browser, being categorized just
> like Classes.
>
> Questions are:
> Should Namespaces implicitly include all variables of their enclosing
> Namespaces?
> What about variable initializers? I don't really like them; would rather like
> to have declarations only.
> What about selective variable imports? Perhaps with renaming?
>
> Hans-Martin
>
>