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Re: Obj-C Namespacing


From: Ziemowit Laski
Subject: Re: Obj-C Namespacing
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 11:35:22 -0800

On 4 Dec 2003, at 7.48, Alexander Malmberg wrote:

Calvin Mitchell wrote:
(Hoping i'm not igniting the flames) Objective-C is
not a dead language (like Sumerian or Akkadian)...why
don't we ADD NAME SPACES TO OBJECTIVE-C????

If it can be done cleanly (semantics and syntax), without complicating
things (compiler, runtime, etc.) too much, and without breaking
compatibility, it'd be worth looking at. I can't say more than that
without an actual proposal.

It's so powerful an idea and would solve SO MANY
issues with GNUstep programming...

While it's something with a decent potential for causing issues, I know
of no actual issue that this has caused. Can you give an example?

does Objective-C++
(feeling the fire on my ass already) have namespace
support?

Only c++ namespaces for c++ stuff; all objective-c stuff must be in the
"default" namespace (if I'm reading the gcc sources right).

That's right. I believe that adding namespaces to ObjC/ObjC++ constructs would actually require adding namespace support to the runtime, and runtime metadata. :-(

--Zem





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