According to TOGoS: > > Ruby apparently has a unified namespace. Perl doesn't have one of > > those. Pretending it does is just closing your eyes and humming. > > Many other languages won't be able to access perl's various > differently-typed variables, anyway.
Sure they will, with appropriate aliasing requests. > To those languages perl should make visible a unified namespace. That's a level of DWIM inappropriate for a language runtime. > It can feel free to have a second, non-unified one if it likes. If > you had bothered to read the second half of the message you'd know > that that's what I meant. I read all of it. I know what you mean. What you are not realizing is that the "appearance" of a unified namespace *is* a unified namespace. A Perl runtime won't have the necessary information to present one. -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "I don't really think it is a question of bright people and dumb people, but rather people who can see the game they're playing and those who can't." -- Joe Cosby
