From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2007-12-29T00:37:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Matz says namespaces are too hard to implement - why?

On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 12:32:10AM +0900, Rick DeNatale wrote:
> but what about this:
> 
> def divide(a, b)
>    use namespace Mathn
>    a / b
>  end
> 
> Now, I'd think you would want:
> 
> 1 / 2 #=> 1
> 
> divide(1,2) #=> 1 / 2
> 
> The problem here it seems that you would need more than attach a
> namespace to an object.  Here we want the Integer/Fixnum classes to
> act differently in the context of executing the divide method, even
> for objects instantiated outside and passed in.

I'm having trouble understanding why this case wouldn't work as
expected.  Can you elaborate?

Thanks,

Paul