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Namespacing

There are a few ideas for namespaces - some are listed below.

1.

function namespace(name)
  return function(interior)
           _G[name] = interior
         end
end

namespace "foo" {
  bar = function(msg) ... end
}

foo.bar("Hello");

2.

function namespace(name)
   if( name and name ~= "" ) then
      _G[name] = _G[name] or {}
      setfenv(1, _G[name]);
   else
      setfenv(1, getfenv(0) );
   end
end

namespace "foo"
function bar(msg) ... end
namespace ""

Comments:

• There should be some way to set metatables on the namespace table through the 'namespace' function. I'm not entirely sure how you'd achieve this, though. --AndrewSidwell