Re: But then what are namespaces ? (was: A read-based grep-like for symbols (el-search?) (was Do shorthands break basic tooling (tags, grep, etc)? (was Re: Shorthands have landed on master)))

[Gregory Heytings]

> > > For me "namespaces" are about allowing the same thing to be invoked by 
> > > different names, depending on context.
> >
> > This is not at all what namespaces are about.  This is aliasing.
>
> Says you, right? Or is the definition of namespace rigidly set down 
> somewhere?

You are free to use whatever definition you want, but aliasing is the 
exact opposite of namespaces: namespaces allow you to use the same (short) 
identifier to denote different objects, aliasing allows you to use 
different identifiers to denote the same object.