Quick comparison of two Namespaces proposals

Paolo Bonzini bonzini at gnu.org
Wed Sep 19 07:09:30 UTC 2007


>> self add: (Kernel Array new: 4)
>>
> 
> This looks like how GNU Smalltalk handles namespaces. Following up the
> references in the gst info files, I found some discussion on the
> Squeak wiki which includes some work done by Augustin Mrazik in 1992:

GNU Smalltalk supports both "Kernel Array" and "Kernel.Array".  The 
former is late (run-time) bound, the latter is compile-time bound using 
the same old "store an association in the method" technique as Squeak.

Paolo



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