>From: Jirka Kosek <>
>To: "Matt G." <>
>CC:
>Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Re: packagename proposal/RFE
>Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 13:11:43 +0200
>
>"Matt G." wrote:
>
> > >e.g. C++ or C# namespaces or Perl modules?
> >
> > Arg! Please don't confuse namespaces and packages!! Even though Java
>may
>
>In .Net (C#, VB.NET, ...) terminology namespace is equivalent to package
>in Java sense. It is set of related classes. It's quite confusing name,
>but it's here. Using <package> for Java package, C# namespace, Perl/PHP
>module, Pascal/Delphi unit, ... seems reasonable.
I think we're in agreement, here. I just want to clarify that the two are
distinct and independent concepts. It's just that, in the languages you
mentioned, they're coupled, as a result of the fact that packages get a
unique namespace. Therefore, one could effectively use the terms
interchangeably, within any of those contexts (though it might be confusing,
to actually do so).
Personally, I believe it might be worth adding a 'namespace' element, for
purposes other than referring to a Java "package" (or similar constructs, in
other languages). One could certainly use this hypothetical 'namespace'
element, to markup a reference to the namespace defined by a Java package
(or similar, in C#), but a separate 'namespace' element is really
necessitated by cases such as C++ and XML, for which no equivalent exists.
Matt
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