[swift-evolution] The lack of namespaces is leading people astray

[Russ Bishop]

> On Jan 30, 2017, at 5:55 AM, Tuur Anton via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> The lack of namespaces is making people create all kinds of "design patterns".
> 
> 
> What do you think?
> 

I’ve used languages with namespaces for many years. I don’t find multi-level namespaces to be much of an improvement over a single-level namespace in most cases. On the contrary, I find it much simpler to avoid hunting around importing a hundred namespaces. This is what you end up with:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using System.ServiceModel;
using System.ServiceModel.Web;
using System.Text;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.Web;
using System.Net <http://system.net/>;
using System.Net <http://system.net/>.HttpClient;



The only thing we really need in Swift is the ability to have a Private submodule, especially for mixed-mode frameworks.


Russ
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