On 3 Feb 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
>
> | I'm talking about having a simple using declaration for types referenced
> | in this file. I can't see that that's unacceptable.
>
> I am very fond of the idea of keeping the global namespace as clean as
> possible, I realize that with current compilers this is very hard, but
> I still find it a nice goal.
>
> So when putting "things" into a namespace, be it global or other we
> keep the scope of that alias as small as possible.
(last word on this one, I promise to keep quiet now)
The compromise is between clean namespace (which is very desirable, a
dirty namespace will result in hard-to-track down bugs) and programmer
efficiency.
Anyone who has programmed java will know how much of a pain it is to type
java.util.Vector all the time, and will probably have used import
java.util.Vector --- or even the very eveil import java.util.* (I've done
it ;-)
Jules
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