On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 3:17 AM, Wendy Lin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 28 July 2013 06:17, Roland Mainz <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 4:42 AM, Wendy Lin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On 12 July 2013 04:35, David Korn <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> cc: [email protected]
>>>> Subject: Re: [ast-users] ksh -c 'namespace a.c.b { integer i=5 ; } ;  ' => 
>>>> a.c.b: is not an identifier?
>>>> --------
>>>>
>>>>> How do I create a nested namespace?
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried this but it fails:
>>>>> ksh -c 'namespace a.c.b { integer i=5 ; } ; '
>>>>> /home/wlin/bin/ksh: a.c.b: is not an identifier
>>>>>
>>>>> Wendy
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> namespace a
>>>> {
>>>>         namespace c
>>>>         {
>>>>                 namespace b
>>>>                 {
>>>>                         integer i=5
>>>>                 }
>>>>         }
>>>> }
>>>
>>> I still get an error for this:
>>> ksh -c 'namespace a { namespace b { integer i=5 ; } ; } ; printf "%d\n" 
>>> .a.b.i'
>>> /home/wlin/bin/ksh: printf: .a.b.i: no parent
>>>
>>> I don't think this is the right way (semantically) because you can't
>>> switch from namespace a.b.c to namespace b.g.y on the fly.
>>
>> The following test patch "fixes" the problem:
>> -- snip --
>> diff -r -u original/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c
>> build_i386_64bit_debug/src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c
>> --- src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c     2013-07-25 02:37:26.000000000 +0200
>> +++ src/cmd/ksh93/sh/xec.c       2013-07-28 05:36:31.827214685 +0200
>> @@ -2710,8 +2710,10 @@
>>                                 Namval_t *oldnspace = shp->namespace;
>>                                 int offset = stktell(stkp);
>>                                 int     
>> flag=NV_NOASSIGN|NV_NOARRAY|NV_VARNAME;
>> +#if 0
>>                                 if(cp)
>>
>> errormsg(SH_DICT,ERROR_exit(1),e_ident,fname);
>> +#endif
>>                                 sfputc(stkp,'.');
>>                                 sfputr(stkp,fname,0);
>>                                 np =
>> nv_open(stkptr(stkp,offset),shp->var_tree,flag);
>> -- snip --
>>
>> If this gets applied then the following sample code finally works:
>> -- snip --
>> # the next three lines are placeholders for the parent namespaces
>> namespace com { true ; }
>> namespace com.att  { true ; }
>> namespace com.att.research { true ; }
>>
>> # test namespace for AT&T Research
>> namespace com.att.research.hello
>> {
>>         function print_hello
>>         {
>>                 print 'Hello World'
>>         }
>> }
>>
>> # do somthing
>> .com.att.research.hello.print_hello
>> -- snip --
>>
>> IMO this would finally a major step forward towards a common
>> function/type library where each party has it's own namespace which is
>> organised like DNA (see java why this is a good idea)
>>
>> * Notes:
>> - At some point namerefs to functions, e.g. typeset -f -n would be
>> usefull... e.g. nameref -f hello=.com.att.research.hello.print_hello #
>> would map the function .com.att.research.hello.print_hello to the
>> short name "hello" without requiring a wrapper function (saving
>> execution name)
>>
>> - Known bugs:
>> $ ksh -c 'namespace a { true ; } ; namespace a.sp1 { integer i=5 ;
>> function inc { let i++ ; } ; } ; print ${.a.sp1.i} ; .a.sp1.inc ;
>> print ${.a.sp1.i} ' # print $'5\n5' but should print $'5\n6'
>>
>> Comments/feedback/rants/etc. wecome...
>
> I like it. It improves a lot over perl module madness.
>
> One rfe: mkdir has option -p to create missing parent dirs. Could you
> add namespace -p to add missing namespaces, i.e. create empty
> namespaces if they are not set yet?
>
> Aside from namespace -p the idea of adding namespaces like a DNS tree is 
> GREAT!!

Interesting.

namespace --man doesn't work. Is this because namespace is a special
command or an element of the language?

Irek
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