Xah Lee wrote: [...] > Steve Holden wrote: >> And therein lies the danger of imagination. > >> Typically the namespace components are looked up one by one, so for >> >> this.that.theother >> >> first "this" will be looked up and (hopefully) yield an object with a >> namespace, which will then be searched for "that", yielding another >> object with a namespace in which "theother" can be looked up. That's >> certainly how it works in Python: > > yes, but Steve, what is your point? > > The question is, what is the technical difficulty, if any, of > introducing namespace into a existing language. > > You pointed out that identifier lookup at least from the perspective > of language user is somewhat like a tree walking processing. However, > that does not answer the main question. > Yawn.
My point was you oversimplified the problem due to your ignorance of the issues. You are a good writer when you stick to what you know and avoid the rabid profanity. Unfortunately that doesn't happen often enough for my taste. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list