On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:50:05 -0400
James Reeves <jree...@weavejester.com> wrote:
> > Ah, but as in Java, the "big official libraries" such as java itself
> > starts with i.e. java.swing. But if I was to publish a utilities
> > library for swing, i would call it no.terjedahl.java.swing, so that it
> > could be used by me or others as-is, without conflict with java.swing.
> In theory this is a problem, but in practise it rarely is. Many
> languages don't prefix their namespaces with domain names, such as
> Ruby and Python, and they manage fine.
Mostly fine, anyway. I've seen more than one Python private library
that unintentionally collided with standard library modules the author
didn't use and wasn't aware of. Trying to use both modules in the same
application was - um, interesting.
<mike
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