Re: [TCLCORE] namespace import (Was: Re: TIP399: Dynamic Locale Changing for msgcat - how to proceed ?)

[Lars H. <Lar...@re...>]

Donald G Porter skrev 2012-09-10 16.46:
> On 09/10/2012 10:40 AM, Lars Hellström wrote:
>> It occurs to me that [namespace import] gives pretty poor support for
>> explicitly naming each command to import!
>
> Yes!
>
>> Maybe a variant like
>>
>>      namespace importfrom ?-force? $ns ?$cmdname ...?
>>
>> would make it easier to do The Right Thing here?
>
> The "-force" option is a misfeature we ought not continue.  It exists
> to work around a design bug we fixed many releases ago.

Just to be clear: Do you mean the right thing is to always overwrite 
existing commands?

> Other than that you appear to have the right idea.
>
> I would add a "-as" option in order to do importing and renaming in
> a single step (without the need to [rename] some existing command
> that's in the way).

I don't quite see how that would look syntactically, especially when 
multiple commands are being imported. Please give an example. Also, I could 
live with falling back to [interp alias] for cases when source and target 
command names are different.

Lars Hellström