Re: RFC 78 and shared vs unshared modules/data

2000-08-11 Thread Bennett Todd
2000-08-11-11:59:47 Steve Simmons: > There's a strong implication here that we've just made package > namespaces heirarchical. The possibility of doing so was raised during discussion of ways to handle needs for one running program to have two different versions of the same support module. Once

RFC 78 and shared vs unshared modules/data

2000-08-11 Thread Steve Simmons
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 05:46:14PM -0400, Bennett Todd wrote: > Today there's no difference. If the proposal under discussion were > to pass, and packages' namespaces were to become local to the > namespace where the "use" occurred, then perhaps main::whatever > could be a common, stable, global