On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Oleg Broytman <phd@phdru.name> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 04:15:52PM -0500, Mark Adam <dreamingforward@gmail.com> wrote:
On second thought, the idea of "namespaces" within the interpreter (like Tim Peters was suggesting I think in the doctest module) could put some order to built-ins and globals within the interpreter. round(), hex() and others could be in the namespace "Numbers" (Named by their associated type), similarly for the other type-specific builtins.
Create a keyword "expose" to dump a particular namespace into the global scope when you don't want to type "Numbers.round(f)".
What is the difference between such namespaces and modules (which *are* namespaces)?
Modules reside on file and are changeable, Namespaces solely in memory, defined by the Interpreter itself. mark