On Monday 20 August 2001 04:12, Rich Bowen wrote:
> Bah, now I can't find the article in the archived. Basically he said
> that 3-level names (foo::bar::baz) were unnecessarily hard to find,
> and did not do anything to improve the situation. I'm still looking
> for the actual postings, and I can't figure out where I saw them.
> Skud, do you recall where that discussionwas?
I've heard this 3-level names argument several times from several different
people, but I still fail to understand what's so wrong with them. I never
noticed that they were hard to find, and for some vast namespaces (eg Date) I
think that they provide a nice partitionning. In fact, I feel that
restricting namespaces to two levels makes things actually harder to find, I
prefer a nice conceptual "hashing" over an n-page long sequential search.
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