At 4:41 PM -0400 8/19/02, John Cowan wrote:
>Naah. Namespaces are designed to prevent name collisions and that's it.
>Anything else is all in your head.
>
That's the common refrain, and it may be true historically, but in
practice I don't believe it. The primary use I see for namespaces is
to quickly and easily recognize elements from particular
vocabularies, even in the absence of local name conflicts. Resolving
name conflicts is actually quite rare.
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