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1 point by Pauan 4951 days ago | link | parent

"I feel like having an implicit variable for the namespace is a bit of a low-level approach, since the core Racket namespace tools default to the dynamic (current-namespace) already."

Yeah, I have nothing against making macros or functions that handle namespaces in other ways, but I'd rather have a simple and concise low-level way too.

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"I agree. I think "runtime" is a pretty good name for what you're headed for. :)"

Yeah, but I think the word "namespace" makes perfect sense for my library, especially considering that a namespace is a simple mapping between names and values. You can even pass in tables, so I think "namespace" is just fine.

Of course, in ar itself, using "runtime" is also perfectly fine, because ar namespaces might contain things other than a simple mapping, so I don't see a problem with ar using "runtime" and my library using "namespace".