empty classes as c structs?

[Carlos Ribeiro]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:01:23 +0100, Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> 
> > > We could use __add__, instead for combining namespaces
> >
> > Update already let's us combine namespaces. To create a new object that merges
> > two namespaces do:
> >    namespace.update(namespace(ns_1), ns_2)
> 
> One thing I'd like to see in namespaces is _chaining_ -- keeping each
> namespace separate but having lookups proceed along the chain.  (The
> best semantics for _bindings_ as opposed to lookups isn't clear though).

Good point. The name 'namespace' kind of imples chaining, in the usual
Pythonic sense... But I feel that by splitting this into two types
(namespace & bunch) we may be making things overly complicated, and
losing some of the power of the argument. Again, just my $0.02 worth.

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