- From: Graham Klyne <GK@dial.pipex.com>
- Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 09:42:04 +0100
- To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Cc: <xml-uri@w3.org>
At 04:58 PM 5/31/00 -0400, Simon St.Laurent wrote: >I'm hardly claiming that namespaces are useless - they are in fact great >for 'language mixing' in a lot of different contexts. That's a property of >naming things, however, not a property of making things 'first class objects'. OK, I see I mis-understood your claim. My instinct --but this is not a well-baked engineering argument-- is that if one starts to admit fragmentation of the space of "things that can be named", including namespaces, then the architectural framework begins to crumble... #g ------------ Graham Klyne (GK@ACM.ORG)
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