Could namespaces be dicts and we could write dict-copy? Jay
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 6:59 AM, Matthew Flatt <mfl...@cs.utah.edu> wrote: > At Thu, 4 Nov 2010 17:10:31 -0700, YC wrote: >> is there a way to duplicate or copy a namespace? It looks like I can use >> namespace-mapped-symbols, namespace-variable-value, and >> namespace-variable-set-value! to copy the results from one namespace to >> another, but this only works for variables, not syntaxes that resides in the >> source namespace. > > I think you're right that there's currently no way to duplicate a > namespace. Maybe we could add additional reflective operations, but > it's easy to add too much in this space. > > Can you say more about how duplicating a namespace would be useful? > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > -- Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
