A little namespace "proposal"

Chris Muller afunkyobject at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 6 18:20:45 UTC 2004


>> I think I used the word "render" meaning that these class references has
>> always been to the class Delay in category Kernel-Processes - it is
>> after all "stored" as an object reference in the CM. But suddenly, when
>> it turns ambiguous, this reference is "rendered" as "Kernel::Delay" in
>> the source.
>
> Hmm... So you're proposing that my code might change when I file in 
> another package?  So if I have Foo filed in, and then I load Bar, I 
> might have to commit a new version of Foo because its code got changed 
> while loading Bar?

No, Foo did not change, so no need to commit a new version.  It always knew
it's fully-qualified names, just they weren't displayed by the browser until it
was necessary (when Bar was filed in).





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