On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 23:13:37 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 7:32 PM -0700 9/22/04, Jeff Clites wrote:
>>On Sep 22, 2004, at 10:58 AM, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>>
>>>*) There are three things that can be in a namespace: Another
>>>namespace, a method or sub, and a variable.
>>>
>>>*) The names of namespaces, methods & subs, and variables do *not*
>>>collide. You may have a namespace Foo, a sub Foo, and a variable
>>>Foo at the same level of a namespace.
>>
>>The easiest way to say these two point may be just to say that each
>>namespace has three sections, and a given lookup is always a lookup
>>in a specific section.
>>
>>One problem: Some languages (Scheme, for example, and arguably C)
>>have a unified namespace for subs and variables. What to do there?
>
> The easiest thing would be to allow the languages to store into
> multiple sections at once, or leave it to them to do the right thing
> as they need to. Either way works OK for me, since neither Scheme nor
> C are really our target languages.
>
Ah, but python has a unified variable/function namespace. Allow me to
demonstrate:
#!/usr/bin/env python
def a():
pass
print a
a = 7
print a
Produces the following on my system:
<function a at 0x401e0b54>
7
So this does need to be addressed for a primary target language.
--
Jonathan
