>> I agree it was done rather hastily, but at the time (as far as I remember)
>> there weren't many objections. It was not obvious how much pain they would
>> cause.
> Hmmm. I can remember some very *strenuous* objections, most of which boiled down to that they were neither sufficient *or* necessary, and that they would complicate things. My memory is that they were a pet project and essentially forced on everyone, despite protestations.
>
That's my memory too.
I distinctly remember writing a post in which I claimed that it didn't
matter that the namespace design was bad, because it was so bad that
no-one would actually use it. Sadly I can't find any record of this post
in the archives.
Michael Kay
Saxonica
