[TCLCORE] Re: Procedure/Namespace Behaviour

[Brian L. <Bri...@En...>]

jef...@aj... said:
> The quandry being whether ::B::foo should still have executed in the
> creating namespace (::A).  Personally I think the above seems logical,
> but some argue that the original proc author should be the only one to
> say what namespace the proc evals in.

It's been a while so I don't recall all the context, but I believe I made
the bug fix after someone complained that they were surprised by the
initial "execute in the original namespace" semantics. Thinking
about it now, I'm not sure what semantics are correct. The current scheme 
really moves the proc including where it's globals point. The original
scheme would let you repackage procs under a new namespace (good),
but then those procs can have side effects outside their repackaged
namespace (probably bad). 

  Brian



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