Re: Thoughts on importing names from modules into a namespace

[Chris Marrin <chris@...>]

Diego Nehab wrote:
> hi,
>
> > I have been thinking about the idea of importing names,
> > like what python does with its various flavors of import
> > statement. This goes along with requiring modules that do
> > not put themselves into the global namespace.
>
>
> The only problem with opening a package into the global
> namespace is that, usually, packages refer to internal
> symbols by referencing the namespace table directly. So, if
> your package exports a variable, you will have made a copy
> of it. Changes to that variable made in the global copy
> won't  be visible to the package implementation.
>
> Arguably this is a bad choice for the package interface
> anyways (oh wait, LuaSocket does this). I am just letting
> you know you might hit this kind of issue.

Right. That's why I played it safe and only imported the functions.

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