[ocaml-platform] on the need and design of OCaml namespaces

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 07:23:19PM +0100, Alain Frisch wrote:
> What would be the justification for hierarchical names?

One of the advantages that comes to mind is the ability to piggyback on
already existing, world-wide, unambiguous, hierarchical namespaces out
there, such as DNS. It's overly verbose, but if you dream of a very
widespread adoption of the language (a-la Java), then namespaces like
org.apache.... have their advantages in terms of scalability.

Just my 0.02€,
Cheers.
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