Proposal: Package aliases

[Derek Parnell]

On Thu, 15 May 2008 02:06:44 +0300, Yigal Chripun wrote:

> a related matter: why not separate the logical namespaces from the
> actual file system organization? something like .net does with its
> namespaces vs. assemblies?

It would be useful to separate the file system assumptions from the
package/module name, but there would still have to be some mechanism for
the compiler to map package/module names to the file system. It has to read
those files at compile time so it has to know where to get a module's file
from. The current mechanism works but it enforces a number of restrictions
on us. 

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Derek
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Melbourne, Australia
15/05/2008 12:09:15 PM