Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> 
> Hrm.  Relative is the usual apposite to absolute, but we have a three-way
> logic here, so appositives don't really work.  I think that "hll" is the
> best I can think of, and given the existing ".HLL" directive, its meaning
> is immediately clear:

I like that.

> Seems to me that we should have get_namespace patterned just alike:

Agreed.

> I'm still not entirely happy with "abs", but I can live with it, especially
> since its use should be quite rare.

Yeah, if we're going for meaning-based naming in the 'hll' version, it'd
be nice to have a meaning-based name for the absolute-root version.
Perhaps get_root_global or get_base_global (I like 'base' better).

I'll work on updating the namespaces PDD tomorrow.

Allison

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