RE: Making the namespace resource "real"

>I think one issue with your proposal is that the namespace in general is
an
>infinite set of names.

Sorry, but that is exactly what the namespace spec defines. A namespace
defines a _space_ which names can be drawn from, not the content of that
space, its meaning or anything else.  If you want a finite dictionary, or
semantic bindings, or anything else constraining what the names are and how
they're interpreted, you need to build some higher-level concept on top of
Namespaces.

Namespaces really are pretty close to being pure syntax. Adding semantics
to them is someone else's problem, and is NOT part of the question
currently on the table.



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Joe Kesselman  / IBM Research

Received on Thursday, 8 June 2000 15:27:54 UTC