My students caught me off guard when they pointed out that sometimes I use
the word "scope", as when I'm discussing my(), and that sometimes I use the
word "namespace", as when I'm discussing packages. They wanted me to help
them understand the difference, and I found myself nonplussed. I don't
want to have to go into typeglobs and the package namespace hash, since
they're not ready for those concepts.
Is there any pithy way to distinguish between the two concepts?
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Jonathan Feinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sunny Brooklyn, NY
http://pobox.com/~jdf/
