Isaac Dupree
AntC (in an unrelated reply to Ian) :
I prefer DORF's sticking to conventional/well-understood H98 namespacing controls.
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I'm not sure yet that DORF's namespacing is well-understood by anyone but you.
No of course I'm not saying DORF's namespacing is well-understood. I mean: 1. H98 namespacing controls are conventional and well understood. 2. DORF uses H98 controls and only them. Re 2: Partly you'll just have to take my word for it, but mainly the implementors will have to prove it to themselves if DORF is ever going to see the light of day, so I'd be daft to claim something I didn't have good evidence for. Also there's strong corroboration: there's a prototype implementation attached to the wiki. You can download it and compile it (one module importing the other), and run it and try to break the abstractions, and demonstrate sharing the fields that are sharable. You can inspect the code to see if I've desugarred my syntax correctly, or introduced some trick. (If you see anything 'suspicious', please ask.) In fact, doing all that would be a far better use of your time (and mine) than all that verbiage and word counting. AntC