[swift-evolution] [Discussion] Namespaces

[Matthew Johnson]

> On May 20, 2016, at 2:30 PM, Adrian Zubarev via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
>> I don’t see any other motivation for why would you want to force a developer to use the submodule name. If there are no conflicts, why force them to use it?
> 
> In my particular case I have something like this where i communicate to the developer that there are references involved:
> 
> Reference.Buffer
> 
> Reference.String
> 
> Reference.Character
> 
> And so on. String or Character would collide with Swift.String and Swift.Character here. Namespaces would solve this (or submodules).
> 
> 

I don't support any mechanism that allows you to *require* the developer to use your (sub)module or namespace name as a prefix in all cases.  However, I *do* support allowing them to *choose* to use it for either stylistic reasons or to resolve ambiguity.

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> Adrian Zubarev
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> Am 20. Mai 2016 bei 21:18:46, Tyler Cloutier (cloutiertyler at aol.com <mailto:cloutiertyler at aol.com>) schrieb:
> 
>> I don’t see any other motivation for why would you want to force a developer to use the submodule name. If there are no conflicts, why force them to use it?
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