On Feb 18, 2010, at 11:02 PM, James Foster wrote:
Why not, if it has been proved for a long time in Gemstone, shouldn't be sensible to create something similar for Pharo? Or it uses some kind of proprietary technology from Gemstone?
You've heard the phrase, "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"? It's true! We would be delighted to see Pharo use a similar scheme for namespaces. Not only is it is an elegant approach, but its adoption by Pharo would ease the upgrade path to GemStone should the opportunity arise.
For an overview of GemStone namespaces, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z84n3O8YUsI. For more information see the Chapter 3 of the Programming Guide (http://seaside.gemstone.com/docs/GS64-ProgGuide-2.2.pdf).
thanks! We will definitly have a look. (We want to have a *real* good abstractions for structuring large projects better...) Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.