On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, marius schebella wrote:
eventually, I think users should not have to bother with namespaces at all. I still consider namespace declarations in a visual dataflow programming tool to be a hack.
So, why is it that it is a hack in the context of a visual dataflow programming language and, I presume that you mean that non-visual and/or non-dataflow programming languages are somehow different?
I'd say that declarations are annoying in any language, and fully-qualified names are annoying in any language, but with some languages and editors it's easier to handle it than in some others, and in some it annoys more than in others.
Do you mean namespace declarations in particular, or namespaces in general including full-qualified names, or do you just mean the latter, or just long names in general?
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