Re: DOCBOOK: Re: packagename proposal/RFE

["Matt G." <matt_g_ at hotmail dot com>]

> From: Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>
> To: "Matt G." <matt_g_@hotmail.com>
> CC: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Re: packagename proposal/RFE
> Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 13:11:43 +0200
>
> "Matt G." wrote:
>
> > >e.g. C++ or C# namespaces or Perl modules?
> >
> > Arg!  Please don't confuse namespaces and packages!!  Even though Java 
> may
>
> In .Net (C#, VB.NET, ...) terminology namespace is equivalent to package
> in Java sense. It is set of related classes. It's quite confusing name,
> but it's here. Using <package> for Java package, C# namespace, Perl/PHP
> module, Pascal/Delphi unit, ... seems reasonable.
I think we're in agreement, here.  I just want to clarify that the two are 
distinct and independent concepts.  It's just that, in the languages you 
mentioned, they're coupled, as a result of the fact that packages get a 
unique namespace.  Therefore, one could effectively use the terms 
interchangeably, within any of those contexts (though it might be confusing, 
to actually do so).

Personally, I believe it might be worth adding a 'namespace' element, for 
purposes other than referring to a Java "package" (or similar constructs, in 
other languages).  One could certainly use this hypothetical 'namespace' 
element, to markup a reference to the namespace defined by a Java package 
(or similar, in C#), but a separate 'namespace' element is really 
necessitated by cases such as C++ and XML, for which no equivalent exists.


Matt


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