On 12/03/2009 06:31 PM, Mike Samuel wrote:
2009/12/3 Ryan Gies
I appreciate this thread as it has made me aware of the CommonJS effort
which is of dear interest. I will certainly continue there, however I
simply want to contribute the work I have done to find the ECMAScript way to
manage packages and classes. For reference, and whatever value it may have,
this is a bare-bones implementation which matches what you propose:
Documentation: http://support.livesite.net/products/es/docs/?doc=es1.doc
Source: http://support.livesite.net/products/es/es1.js
From my a quick look, it seems that you're also turning strings into
package/namespace names at runtime.
Are packages reified as javascript objects? Is it also a hierarchical
addressing scheme?
Is this something that would be helped or hindered by the namespace function?
Yes, packages are reified as objects and it is a hierarchical addressing
scheme.
The proposed namespace function would be neither a benefit nor hindrance.
In my opinion, that which Mark has proposed as the 'namespace' function
would be more aptly named 'vivify'--a very useful function indeed. The
keyword 'namespace' is extremely valuable and ought be reserved for
introducing scope into the parser rather than a runtime function.
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