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From: carlg@world.std.com (Carl E Gundel)
Subject: Re: [Jigsaw/VSE] Smalltalk Namespaces
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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 14:53:31 GMT
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Paul Webber (webber@cts.com) wrote:
: On Sun, 19 Jan 1997 19:47:33 GMT, carlg@world.std.com (Carl E Gundel)
: >Perhaps a namespace id can be added in at compiler time, and just not be
: >visible in the source code.
: >
: Couldn't the SLL filename (or its identifier) be used by Jigsaw to
: keep name conflicts from happening? As long as Joe and Moe don't use
: the same SLL name then Jigsaw could catalog the duplicate names by
: SLL.

That seems reasonable.  The SLL need not even have a unique id in and of 
itself, but it could be assigned at bind-time.

Carl
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