From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2007-12-23T03:55:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Matz says namespaces are too hard to implement - why?

Stefan Rusterholz wrote:
>> See the above example; if you only want namespaces so that within a
>> given block of code method calls to where you want them to, that's
>> simpler to implement. But it breaks some amount of consistency you might
>> expect. It seems like if selector namespacing is useful (which I'm
>> unsure of) it would only be generally useful if it could also affect
>> calls further down the chain. Maybe I'm wrong?
> 
> I think I'd have to actually play with it and see problems. Maybe you're 
> right :)
> But from what I think at the moment, consistency expectations would be a 
> problem with any namespace implementation. But maybe I'm wrong?

I don't think so, if the namespacing applies to a thread and all called 
code. The idea is that you'd use such namespacing to add your own 
behavior to some class, and expect that everyone calling that class 
while the namespace is active would see that behavior.

- Charlie