Squeak and Namespaces
stephane ducasse
stephane.ducasse at free.fr
Thu Nov 30 15:01:32 UTC 2006
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> Actually, IMHO import lists like in Java or Python do not fit
> Smalltalk at all. Sure, people want to use unqualified names in
> their code. But in those file-centric environments, you know
> exactly where to look to identify which local name refers to which
> global name - you scroll up a few pages to the import list. Also,
> these imports always travel with the code using them, because it's
> in the same file.
This confirms why I have doubts about import. But this is intriguing.
don't you think that if package were first class they could be the
compilation unit and get import attached to them.
> Not so in Smalltalk. As has been noted elsewhere, the compilation
> unit is a method in a class. Consequently, you need either fully
> qualified names, or have class-based imports. We already have a way
> to express the latter (class pools [*]), and we may like to have a
> way for the former. That's all.
Stef
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