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

[Pranshu Goyal]

+1

On 31 January 2017 at 11:32, Russ Bishop via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

>
> 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;
> using 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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*Pranshu Goyal*
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