On Sunday 06 August 2006 16:00, Martin D Kealey wrote: > Any reason to treat HLL namespaces differently from classes, at least in > respect of being an inheritance hierachy?
Preventative measures against future additions to 'parrot' breaking your code without your knowledge. It's the same reason many languages without namespaces or sigils have a sense of reserved keywords. > Simply make 'yourHLL' inherit > from 'parrot', and the rest follows... I wouldn't do this in any language I write. -- c