Hey, a namsepaces discussoin! (Was: Re: Partitioning the image (was Re: Shrinking sucks!))

Ned Konz ned at squeakland.org
Sat Feb 19 18:55:31 UTC 2005


On Saturday 19 February 2005 2:27 am, Reinout Heeck wrote:
> In forth namespaces are just SystemDictionaries. There is a stack of
> namespace references called SEARCH-ORDER that the module under load is free
> to manipulate at load time (provided is has references to the namespaces it
> wants to stick in the search order). Name lookup works very simply by
> walking all the namespaces on the search-order until it finds a hit. No
> ambiguities to resolve (just like in St method lookup).

This is the same as the lookup scheme in Perl.

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