Modules vs name spaces (Was: Global namespace)

[Pascal Costanza]

Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:

> + j-anthony at rcn.com (Jon S. Anthony):
> 
> | There's a difference between modules and name spaces, though modules
> | in many languages also serve as name spaces.
> 
> I have heard this one before, but have never quite understood the
> difference.  I am quite familiar with Lisp's packages and python's
> modules, and sure enough they are quite different, but I lack a clear
> conceptual distinction between modules and name spaces.  (I think it
> was even mentioned during an earlier discussion on c.l.lisp that it
> may be useful to have both available in the same language.)
> 
> So, can anyone either explain the difference, or point to a resource
> (preferably on the web) that explains it?

http://www.flownet.com/gat/packages.pdf and 
http://www.flownet.com/gat/locales.pdf are excellent papers IMHO.


Pascal