[Cuis-dev] Namespaces?

[Casey Ransberger]

So if you use a tool to rename my class, and then load another package with a class that depends on it, but doesn’t know you’ve renamed it, how’s that get dealt with?

> On May 13, 2019, at 9:34 AM, Philip Bernhart via Cuis-dev <cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>>> Every now and then I wish we had namespaces. What's the simplest 
>>> namespace-like thing that could allows us to simultaneously load two 
>>> packages with clashing class names?
> 
> do we really need namespaces? Or do we need a facility to
> detect nameclashes and then rename the package to something
> fitting to the current naming situation?
> 
> Namespaces normally are just a cludge to solve name clashes.
> As it could be that some other package on the world names
> itself "org.coolcompany.Model" and then you have the same issues
> again.
> 
> I think renaming a package and all the self references in it so
> that it can be integrated into the global single level namespace
> makes more sense, atleast to me.
> 
> My two cents,
> Philip
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