Timeline for Running out of Algebraic Symbols
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| Aug 3, 2015 at 13:54 | comment | added | paul garrett | @E.P., maybe you're right that people don't know about "namespaces", but this mildly surprises me, given the utility of the concept. (I'm a mathematician, not a computer scientist or programmer...) The sense of "encapsulate" that appears in "Object Oriented Programming" is also broadly useful, ... but/and it is odd to read "encapsulate" in place of "scope", and such. Perhaps my capacity to gauge the audience is ever-declining... :) | |
| Aug 3, 2015 at 13:41 | comment | added | E.P. | On the contrary, the accepted answer does mention what you call 'scope'. You'll find it under 'Encapsulate'. Name spaces as a technical concept are pretty much confined to computer science while the audience of this question is much broader than that. Most answers are pitched at a level appropriate to that audience and do not use that technical concept, which makes them more useful. | |
| Aug 3, 2015 at 13:09 | history | answered | paul garrett | CC BY-SA 3.0 |