From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] an idea From: Fco.J.Ballesteros In-Reply-To: <20040427014413.GA21542@bio.cse.psu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 08:43:10 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6f527764-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > Without understanding all the details, it seems like that breaks a > feature of Plan 9, namely that namespaces work somewhat like lexical > scoping, where some things just plain aren't visible from the outside. > It seems like exporting a local name could be thought of somewhat like > a functional closure That's interesting. I think that it would be like you say only if the mechanism is missused. The net effect of doing what I say would be like evaluating the NS until the point when the entries resolve right to the providers. Not what amoeba did.