On 3/7/07, Sam Vilain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But "namespace" has well-established historical semantics too - a way > of changing the mappings of local * to global objects. This > accurately describes things liek resource controllers, cpusets, resource > monitoring, etc.
Sorry, I think this statement is wrong, by the generally established meaning of the term namespace in computer science. > > Trying to extend the well-known term namespace to refer to things that > are semantically equivalent namespaces is a useful approach, IMHO. > Yes, that would be true. But the kinds of groupings that we're talking about are supersets of namespaces, not semantically equivalent to them. To use Eric's "shoe" analogy from earlier, it's like insisting that we use the term "sneaker" to refer to all footware, including ski boots and birkenstocks ... Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ ckrm-tech mailing list https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ckrm-tech
