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Re: A basic question: defining modules and libraries
Java's "nested namespaces" are syntactic sugar: dylan.core and
dylan.core.macros cannot meaningfully be related at import time. This just
confuses newbies.
With Date classes, you can rename them at import time in Dylan, which
removes the problem seen in Java.
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- Rob.
> From: brucehoult@pobox.com (Bruce Hoult)
> Organization: The Internet Group Ltd
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.dylan
> Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 15:45:02 +1200
> Subject: Re: A basic question: defining modules and libraries
>
> I actually think that the Java namespace thing works quite well: I'm sure
> everyone in the world has written a Date class, and you migth want to use
> more than one of them in the sme program and they'll conflict, but there's
> only one com.pobox.brucehoult.utilities.Date.
>
> -- Bruce
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