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• Subject: Re: linking, 80/20
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:13:56 -0400
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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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