"Michael Haupt" <mhaupt at gmail.com> wrote in message

> reading your posting, I had the impression there might be some
> relations to Gilad Bracha's work on Newspeak...
>
> http://gbracha.blogspot.com/
>

Wow. I just read some of that work. It seems to be remarkably clean & 
consistent with Smalltalk (to me ... insert standard newbie disclaimer 
here).

The biggest difference between his work and Michael van der Gulik's work at 
http://gulik.pbwiki.com/Namespaces is that Gilad turns names into accessors 
(rather than symbol keys in a dictionary), gaining all kinds of other 
advantages that would be impossible otherwise. A bit cutting edge, perhaps, 
with some still-open questions ... but any other option probably would 
too...

Sophie