I think Brendan had a nice explanation of that some time back:
On 10/08/2007, Brendan Eich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's more work to do, including rationalizing and minimizing > concepts including units and packages. A couple of notes: > > A package is a named pair of namespaces (public and internal), some > rules for using those namespaces within the package body, and some > special forms for importing names from the package's public namespace. > > Program units are compilation units, so unlike packages, which are > never "closed" and can be extended in a given trust domain, units > come to an end at the right curly brace. > > /be -- David "liorean" Andersson _______________________________________________ Es4-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss
