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Re: Namespace: what's the correct usage?

  • From: Joel Rees <rees@s...>
  • To: Eddie Robertsson <eddie@a...>
  • Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 14:51:44 +0900

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From a half-crazed newbie out in right field --

I was going to suggest that qualified nested names ought to mean something
entirely different from unqualified nested names. For example, in my mind,
<xsl:if> should instantiate a particular node as a particular xsl object,
where a plain <if> in the same place should instantiate an object of, uhm,
well, a piece of what is being instantiated, which would be whatever one
would otherwise expect at that node.

I, being used to nested contexts for some reason, would see nothing at all
unnatural in inheriting the expectation from the most recent ancestor node.
In fact, in my perception of perception, this is a necessary aspect of
perception itself. To back up my argument of perception, I was going to
offer the principle of inheritance in object-oriented languages, and the
corollary between a context-free grammar and a two-stack machine.

(I haven't kept up with this, but has anyone ever proven whether two stacks
is insufficient for un-restricted grammars?)

Now, Eddie, you point out to me that many people would deny my perception of
perception. Even if I am right and they themselves are managing their
perceptions through nested contexts, they may be unwilling to recognize it,
or even to understand what I am talking about. Then my recognizer branches
out and I consider multiple inheritance and my former manager who swore that
CoBOL could do anything C could because a procedural language is a
procedural language.

So I offer my two cents. But when I stretch forth my hand, behold, it is
empty.

Joel Rees

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