[Cuis-dev] Namespaces?

[Juan Vuletich]

On 5/23/2019 4:08 PM, Philip Bernhart wrote:
> Hi Juan,
>
> Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev<cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st>  writes:
>
>> I'm not commenting on Namespaces because I'm not actively working on
>> that myself.
> Do you think, that it would be a good feature of packages to better
> check the existing classes when installing the package contents?
>
> So that clashing classes are not silently merged like it's now.
> Or that two packages which have the same named class in them
> don't change the category ownership of such a class.
>
> In my head that it's usability issue, maybe extending the
> package browser?
>
> What do you think?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Philip
>

That would be ok. Alternatives including a warning to Transcript when 
loading, in the case there is a class definition of an existing class. 
Maybe also log warnings for method overrides.

Thanks,

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