From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Why would I use .namespace.myvar?
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 16:14:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2e150aa7-64f2-428e-820e-b24a259cefa9@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7bDFOZYJtMy=r6EJaAF1zNeWNdSBnYfGSEfnBizHzjtrQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 2024-03-10 15:48, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 3:16 PM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>> In a sentence or two, what is a namespace and why do we want it?
> Quoting the updated FAQ file:
>
> 2.9: What is a `namespace' anyway?
Sorta like a first name and a last name for a variable? Even I have
often run into name crowding. Just recently there was that grief about
an unrealized existing integer making mischief. So 'family names' could
sure be a good thing.
>
> As of this writing, namespaces in zsh are little more than syntactic
> sugar for grouping related parameters.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-10 23:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-09 14:30 Stephane Chazelas
2024-03-09 22:58 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-03-10 12:13 ` Stephane Chazelas
2024-03-10 20:08 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-03-10 22:16 ` Ray Andrews
2024-03-10 22:45 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2024-03-10 23:02 ` Ray Andrews
2024-03-10 23:53 ` Mark J. Reed
2024-03-11 2:22 ` Ray Andrews
2024-03-11 2:35 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-03-11 2:50 ` Ray Andrews
2024-03-11 7:53 ` Stephane Chazelas
2024-03-10 22:48 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-03-10 23:14 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
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