From: Eero Saynatkari <ruby-ml@...>
Date: 2009-02-27T23:39:17+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:22571] Re: YASNP (Yet Another Selector Namespace Proposal)

Excerpts from Headius: Charles Oliver Nutter's message of Fri Feb 27 07:58:52 +0200 2009:
> Here's a perfect example, also based on rake: "import"
> 
> JRuby added an "import" for Java classes that ends up conflicting with 
> the "import" Rake uses. So we've had no end of hassle because we both 
> want that top-level "import" name and both of them do drastically 
> different things. If we had namespaces, people could have avoided this 
> very easily:
> 
> import "my_other_rakefile"
> 
> using JRuby::Import
>    import java.lang.System
> end

Not sure this is the best use case?

    JRuby.import java.lang.System

    # Or even
    Java.import lang.System
    java.lang.System.import!


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