Namespaces are one honking great idea

BartC bc at freeuk.com
Sun Jul 3 20:19:34 EDT 2016


On 04/07/2016 00:21, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Monday, July 4, 2016 at 10:02:59 AM UTC+12, Kevin Conway wrote:
>> If the problem with using classes to satisfy the namespace need is
>> that it's unwieldy to use dot qualified paths then isn't that quite similar
>> to saying namespaces are unwieldy?
>
> Python has a simple solution to that:
>
>     a = mod.a
>     b = mod.b

Except that then

      a = 0

doesn't do the same thing as:

      mod.a = 0

But it'll probably work for things that are not assigned to.

-- 
Bartc




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