From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2001-12-05T23:07:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27548] Re: Package Naming

This, below, is somewhat half-baked, but:

If we are to have a tree, could it be an ordered tree?  That way people
need only specify enough to say which part of the tree the package is
in, and if there is ambiguity, the first one wins.

With warnings available about ambiguity resolution, any possible
conflicts need not be hard to trace, and it would simplify the names
users of modules need use. So (to pick an example with a long name)
Pink Floyd's module

Several::Species::Small::Furry::Animals::Gathered_together_in::Cave::Grooving_with::Pict

need only be specified as (something like) "...::Animals::...::Pict"

This would not be confused by some hypothetical cover version by The
Animals, because the Pink Floyd one would be first, if we get the
ordering right.  People would be free to use the long names if they
wished.

If it were ordered you could interate over it, like ObjectSpace...

	Hugh