Re: More 6PAN musings: local namespaces

[email protected] (Dan Sugalski) Sun, 16 Jun 2002 21:26:28 -0400

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At 6:10 PM -0700 6/16/02, Peter Scott wrote:
>It would be nice if one could say
>
>         use Foo::Bar as Local::Foo::Bar
>
>as a way of expressing your proposal.

The one problem with that is modules that have multiple namespaces in 
them. It's not too unusual for Foo.pm to have the packages Foo, 
Foo::Bar, Foo::Bar::Baz, and Foo::Xyzzy in them. Which can 
potentially lead to some interesting namespacing issues.
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                                         Dan

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