Re: Generics vs. Message passing: object namespaces

At 03:24 PM 2/24/2007 +0100, Pascal Costanza wrote:
>I find it hard to tell what is more common and what is not. None of  
>us has any empirical evidence for one position or the other. We are  
>just exchanging toy examples here. I don't want to make  
>generalizations based on toy examples.

	I hold that local namespaces are less likely to cause name collisions than global ones and that that should not be a controversial point.

>Now, someone uses that code as follows:
>
>new ObjectContainer(new List(picture, gun, blood)).draw();
>
>Good idea?

	What is the point of this example?

>I find it hard to believe that you want to write code that is at the  
>same time about two different kinds of concrete concepts. If that is  
>the case, it is rather exceptional and it is probably a good idea  
>anyway to be explicit about what you are talking about.

	Ah, now the purpose of the example is clear.  Perhaps unintentionally, this is a straw man argument again.  No-one is advocating the point you are arguing.