Re:Why do we need modules at all? (2011)
by adev_ on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @09:06AM
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> I’m a big fan of Joe...but I also remember PHP before it had namespaces.
To be picky: module and namespace are different concepts.
C++ has namespace and (soon) will have namespaces AND modules.
Namespaces can be seen in C++ as a pure hardcoded prefix for your functions and are a perfectly valid concept with Joe's idea of a "giant KV store for functions".
To be picky: module and namespace are different concepts.
C++ has namespace and (soon) will have namespaces AND modules.
Namespaces can be seen in C++ as a pure hardcoded prefix for your functions and are a perfectly valid concept with Joe's idea of a "giant KV store for functions".