[Import-SIG] What if namespace imports weren't special?

[P.J. Eby]

At 08:59 AM 7/11/2011 +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> > In at least Perl, PHP, and Java, you don't have to do anything special
> > to merge components in a single namespace from multiple parts of the
> > class/include/autoload path.
>
>Not true. In all three languages, you have to declare in the module what
>package it belongs to. So there is something special to do.

But you have to do that for *every* package, so it's not 
special.  (i.e., by special, I meant, "in addition to what you do 
normally to make a package".


>I'd go further: any directory with the package name could constitute
>a portion of the package. With your approach, you'd need a file with
>an importable extension in each portion of the "zope" package, right?

For that version, yes.  For the performance and compatibility reasons 
discussed elsewhere in this thread, though, that particular variation 
isn't really workable.