what's so difficult about namespace?

[Wojtek]

Xah Lee wrote :
> i cannot fathom what could possibly be difficult of
> introducing or implementing a namespace mechanism into a language. I
> do not understand, why so many languages that lacks so much needed
> namespace for so long? If it is a social problem, i don't imagine they
> would last so long. It must be some technical issue?

Simply put:
- it was not in the original language specification
- some hundreds of millions of distributed browsers interpret 
Javascript without namespaces
- to introduce namespaces into the language would require every browser 
to be replaced (at least if the user comes across a site which uses it)

The IT community has enough trouble getting a few ISPs to upgrade their 
DNS software. How are you going to get millions of general users to 
upgrade?

Web stats show that people are still using IE 5...

-- 
Wojtek :-)