Namespaces (was Re: GUI Library Task Force)

2001-10-10 Thread Hal Daume III
I think one important aspect of Java's java.foo.bar style has been overlooked: the semantics. sure, syntactivally, java.foo.bar and java_foo_bar; they're basically the same. the big issue (to me, at least) is that the Java compiler knows how to interpret the .s and will use them to navigate

Re: Namespaces (was Re: GUI Library Task Force)

2001-10-10 Thread Mark Carroll
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Hal Daume III wrote: (snip) least) is that the Java compiler knows how to interpret the .s and will use them to navigate directory structure. (snip) Yes, that's certainly an interesting idea. I'd like to fall short of mandating anything about location of source files in

Re: Namespaces (was Re: GUI Library Task Force)

2001-10-10 Thread Hal Daume III
So, barring this, I'm curious how other people handle this issue. I have multiple projects. Call them A, B, C. They are in directories: ~/projects/A ~/projects/B ~/projects/C repsectively. Say I'm creating a new project, D, in ~/projects/D that uses code that I've written in packages A,

Re: Namespaces (was Re: GUI Library Task Force)

2001-10-10 Thread John Meacham
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:29:03PM -0400, Hal Daume III wrote: So, barring this, I'm curious how other people handle this issue. I have multiple projects. Call them A, B, C. They are in directories: ~/projects/A ~/projects/B ~/projects/C repsectively. Say I'm creating a new