Ray Saintonge wrote:
I absolutely agree about the scarriness. In his message Erik speaks of the potential for 100,000 namespaces in a project, but that many would seem horribly counterproductive. The present 256 limit for the number of namespaces in a project seems more than enough,
Actually, there's no such limit currently. Since 1.5 the namespace values are stored as 32-bit integers, so you could have a couple billion namespaces if you had the memory and CPU time to define them. ;)
In general though, they're not meant to be very many. Using 8-bit fields unduly limited the *key numbers* which could be used reliably, not so much the total number of namespaces.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)