From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-05-25T02:30:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby namespaces and require

On 5/24/06, transfire@gmail.com <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
> Austin wrote:
> > Yes. Complain to developers who step on each others classes/namespaces.
> >
> > This is a solution looking for a real problem.
> The problem has been expirenced many times. I think your just looking
> at the one piece of it. The whole issue includes the practice of core
> extensions and that's come up a good a lot. If extensions never occured
> then it would be easy enough to ecapsulate libraries at load time w/o
> issue. But with extensions, not even being cooperative with regards to
> class/namspaces can't completely avoid the problems. Hopefully true
> namespaces will arrive soon and provide the proper solution.

True namespaces exist, Trans. Selector namespaces are something
different entirely.
I'm not convinced that selector namespaces are useful, but Matz is.
I'm absolutely convinced that *this* isn't useful.

-austin
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