On Nov 26, 5:45 am, Joshua Cranmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i cannot fathom what could possibly be difficult of > > introducing or implementing a namespace mechanism into a language. > > Namespaces go to the very core of a language, name resolution. > Retroactively adding such a feature is extremely difficult because there > is a strong chance of accidentally breaking existing code.
could you give some technical detail on this? i don't know compiler so am probably being foolish here... but i suppose ultimately name resolution and storage at heart is something like a hashtable... namely, put ‹identifier 1› table put ‹identifier 2› table and lookup is just retrieve ‹identifier› table and now suppose we introduced namespace, so i imagine the compiler simply just concat namespace component befor put, and split before retrieve? Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
