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Re: Global/Local attributes

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• Subject: Re: Global/Local attributes
• From: "Seairth Jacobs" <seairth@s...>
• Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:16:47 -0400
• References: <200208021508.LAA07236@m...>

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@r...>
>
> Seairth Jacobs scripsit:
>
> > True.  But then why use the default namespace at all?
>
> Syntactic minimization.

But it isn't just syntactic minimization.  Named namespaces and default
namespaces are not they same.  They have different semantics.  You cannot
necessarily use them interchangably.

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Seairth Jacobs
seairth@s...

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