On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:28:34 +1100, Itai Tavor <itai@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
Toby Dickenson wrote:
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:56:17 +1100, Itai Tavor <itai@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
citing some irrelevant concern about polluting the namespace.
namespace pollution is less serious if you have a greater number of namespaces, and more serious if you have fewer.
dtml is the only language I know which only provides *one* namespace.
Ok, so namespace pollution might be a valid argument against the prefix patch. But as Chris and Tino pointed out, it's irrelevant for sequence_xxx - and that's the patch that has been repeatedly requested on the list and rejected by DC.
No, ethe prefix option is optional pollution. As Tino pointed out, that is as much or as little of a problem as you want it to be. Adding underscore in addition to hyphen separated names is forced pollution. As Tino pointed out, the hyphen-separated part of the namespace enjoys less protection that I had been assuming, so the magnitude of the problem is less, but definitely non-zero Toby Dickenson tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com