On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, David Zülke wrote:

> Am 23.07.2007 um 16:25 schrieb Brian Moon:
> 
> > > import SQLAlchemy::Column
> > > import SQLAlchemy::Table
> > > import SQLAlchemy::Join
> > > import SQLAlchemy::ForeignKey
> > > import SQLAlchemy::Session
> > > import SQLAlchemy::Transaction
> > 
> > Why use namespaces if you are going to do this?  You are just bringing your
> > classes into the global name space.  The nice thing about namespaces IMO, is
> > that I don't have to have a class named SQLAlchemy_Transaction.  I can just
> > have a class named Transaction in the SQLAlchemy namespace.  I can then
> > create a new object using $obj = new SQLAlchemy::Transaction.
> 
> Oh yes, sure, that must be the main point about namespaces - I can use "::"
> instead of "_" as a delimiter! Yay!

You forgot that you can also move the "prefix" in front of the class 
name to "namespace prefix!"

> Come on, you can't be serious.

I sort of agree, I don't see how the current implementation is really 
useful for anything.

regards,
Derick
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