Actually, Squeak supports namespace, however they are no tool supports for this.

I would encourage you to use different names (sic...).

Cheers,
Alexandre

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 12:52:41PM -0400, Daniel Salama wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I've been playing with Squeak for some time and have a question. if I  
> wanted to use a Squeak instance to serve different applications (say  
> multiple applications using Seaside), how unique do classes need to  
> be? Sorry for the vague question. Let me be more specific.
> 
> I have two applications that both need a class Customer. However, one  
> of the application requires that class Customer have a set of  
> attributes and methods very different from the second application who  
> uses the class Customer for a totally different industry.
> 
> If I create a category for each of the applications, can I have a  
> class Customer for Category A and another class Customer for Category B?
> 
> In a way, I think I'm going to try to answer the question myself, but  
> would prefer to get clarification or validation from you guys, who  
> are much more experienced than me. The Smalltalk way would be to  
> reuse code as much as possible. Therefore, I should probably  
> carefully design a class Customer so that it may be sub-classed into  
> more specialized classes such as IndustryACustomer and  
> IndustryBCustomer. Is this the Smalltalk mentality? Coming from other  
> environments which don't "encourage" you to work efficiently may be  
> what's confusing me.
> 
> Thanks,
> Daniel
> 

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