- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 21:34:37 -0400
- To: Matthew Fuchs <matt@wdi.disney.com>
- CC: "W. Eliot Kimber" <eliot@isogen.com>, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Matthew Fuchs wrote: > > After much discussion, I think namespaces and architectural forms address > different, but related problems. I would say the namespace issue is almost > purely syntactic, and the architecture issue is more semantic. I think I'm agreeing with you, but: "We only care about conflicting names because of the need to reliably apply semantics." You could say the same of the Lambda Calculus. It is only when you apply the semantics of beta-reduction that it becomes relevant that two objects have the same name. Paul Prescod
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