From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-09-01T19:47:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Namespaces too looooooong

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Philipp Kempgen <lists@kempgen.net> wrote:
> Robert Klemme schrieb (am 1.9.10 11:54):
>> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Philipp Kempgen <lists@kempgen.net> wrote:
>>> Robert Klemme wrote:

>>> Whatever. Maybe namespace aliasing could be a nice addition to
>>> Ruby but for the time being the unnecessary autoload wins.
>>
>> Well, if you alias a namespace that you never use then you have
>> created dead code already.
>
> Nope. The condition (false) in the examples above is rather
> simplistic for the sake of clarity. But you can easily have a
> conditional branch that is not dead code.
>
> if (today == 'monday' || entropy > 60)
>        Sh::exec( 'run some cleanup tasks' )
> end

Or course you're right.  My bad.

Cheers

robert


PS: Benchmark looks good.  Btw, you don't need the space filling if
you invoke bm with an integer (label width).

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