Re: Local macros [was: RE: quick note on recent changes]

[Daniel Rall]

Jose  Alberto Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > From: Geir Magnusson Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Yes and no.  One thing to consider is that there are other resource
> > collisions that one has to manage in a large shop : 
> > libraries, packages,
> > templates, whatever.  VMs would be another.  And conflicts 
> > don't happen
> > silently : you can lock out the replacement of a VM if it is already
> > defined.  This also produces log output, so it's not much of a mystery
> > if you watch your log.
> >  
> 
> I do not buy this argument. In Java, libraries, packages, V templates
> they all live in a hierarchical namespace (either defined by the
> hierarchical file system structure, or the namespaces defined by
> Java packages). To just say that you can look in the log file for errors
> is just asking people to dealt with the problem in the worst time possible,
> once the template in on a production environment.

WOW!  Do fill us in on how you successfully skip development and testing...

Daniel