Partitioning the image (was Re: Shrinking sucks!)

Cees de Groot cg at cdegroot.com
Thu Feb 10 18:19:20 UTC 2005


On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:25:58 -0500, Lex Spoon <lex at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
> My thoughts?  Hmm.  I don't have any strong feeling.  I just want us to
> have *some* way to divide up the namespace, so that packages do not
> collide so easily and so that I can stop naming my classes with
> prefixes.
>
I like prefixes, actually. I like them a whole lot more than the mess they  
made in VW.

I wonder what capabilities would bring us here. Different subsystems in a  
partitioned image wouldn't have any problem using the same classnames in  
something Squeak-E or Islands like. Would you still need namespaces?



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