On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dean Landolt wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]<mailto: >> [email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Urgh, namespace is misleading, it suggests Common Lisp's symbol >> packages, the AS3/ES4 namespaces, XML namespaces. Here, @iterator >> is not a prefix or part of a pair, or set-of-symbols. It's just a >> symbol you can find from a string. >> >> >> >> I admit the historical baggage may be too much to shake but what we're >> talking about here is quite precisely a namespace :) >> > > I don't think so, but definitions vary. Could you cite a source for yours? I just meant in the literal sense: a "namespace" is just a string key space. Using symbols as interned strings allows you to add any number of "namespaces" to an object, including some language-defined "system" namespace. And this is what we're after, isn't it?
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