Should removed classes become Undeclared?

goran at krampe.se goran at krampe.se
Mon Feb 13 08:06:52 UTC 2006


Bert Freudenberg <bert at impara.de> wrote:
[SNIP]
> > But this could also have tricky results in a future (?) multi- 
> > namespace
> > environment.
> > Suppose NameSpace A has a class C.
> > NameSpace B also has a class C.
> >
> > If you remove both classes A.C and B.C, then load class C again  
> > what happen ?
> 
> Nothing - the latest proposal for Squeak namespaces was to just use  
> #A::C and #B::C as a class name. Nice and clean.

Perhaps I should dust off that code once again. I still feel it had lots
of nice properties (simple, backwards compatible, no need for new
fileout formats, tools still work etc).

regards, Göran



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