Chip said:
> ...the "appearance" of a unified namespace *is*
> a unified namespace.
Yup.
> A Perl runtime won't have the necessary information
> to present one.
I'm not so sure about that. Most of the time, only one
variable with a name will be defined ($foo, @foo, or
&foo, but not more than one). In these cases, the perl
compiler would put 'foo' into the LCD namespace in
addition to putting $foo @foo or &foo into the perl
namespace. In cases where more than one is defined, it
could default to scalar (probably what the
hypothetical ruby/python programmer wanted), or let
the perl programmer specify which one to use:
add_module_accessor 'foo', $foo
(or whatever).
This reminds me just a little bit of what J# does to
implement accessors that can be used by other .NET
programs. It's a little clunky for the java
programmer, but it makes the interface for everyone
else much cleaner.
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