-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 12 September 2004 10:08 pm, Jeff Clites wrote: <> > I'd say that the language-level namespaces should get nice reverse-DNS > names, like ["com.perl.perl5"], or whatever's appropriate.
No, no, no, no. Bad Java programmer! :) The reverse-DNS namespace sounds great until you realize that not everyone has a domain name. One could imagine some developer whittling away a toy language and hosting off Geocities/Tripod/whatever without having a proper domain name. Or even an programmer who doesn't have an Internet presence for their language at all (lots of academic languages are like this). And what do you do if your domain name changes? Worse, what do you do if someone steals your domain name? Sun tried using reverse-DNS namespaces for Java, and in my experiance, it causes too many problems for edge cases. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBRaL3bMnv87GOcv0RAiATAJ4n3PP8PR7kN38uUbki5asvcBjvIQCfVyV4 5mlzgNZo07hFK/eWR8xxaY0= =/O3N -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
