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I deferred all the namespace changes to a later release.
I addition to types in namespaces, there is also the question of
nested namespaces. When I added namespaces I was envisioning
a nested namespace model and namepace names would be identifiers.
The alternative, which Roland sent a patch for allows does not allow
for nesting, but allows namespaces to be named by a compound variable.
Thus, resarch.att.com could be the name of a namespace, but that does
not mean that research.att is a namespace and that of I am in
research.att.com, that if there is a namespace named research.att,
that it will be searched. I just means that variables not found
in research.att.com will be searched for in the global namespace.
The issue with namespace types that needs to be worked out is
how the namespace for type names will be handled. Currently gobal types
are kept in .sh.type.typename. I suspect that types defined in
namespace foo, should be kept in .foo.sh.type.typename but I haven't
modified the code for this. I do have it on my list, bug I have a few
bug fixes to go before I start on it.
David Korn
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