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(eval foobar.froboz)
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(eval foobar.froboz)
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will return the value that **froboz** is bound to in a namespace which is the value of the name **foobar** in the current name namespace; and that
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will return the value that **froboz** is bound to in a namespace which is the value of the name **foobar** in the current namespace; and that
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(eval .system.users.simon.environment.froboz)
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(eval .system.users.simon.environment.froboz)
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The exact path separator syntax may change, but the principal that when interning a symbol it is broken down into a path of tokens, and that the value of each token is sought in a namespace bound to the previous token, is likely to remain.
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The exact path separator syntax may change, but the principal that when interning a symbol it is broken down into a path of tokens, and that the value of each token is sought in a namespace bound to the previous token, is likely to remain.
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Obviously if **froboz** is interned in one namespace it is not necessarily interned in another, and vice versa. There's a potentially nasty problem here that two lexically identical strings might be bound in different namespaces, so that there is not one canonical interned **froboz**; if this turns out to cause problems in practice there will need to be a separate canonical [[hashtable]] of individual path elements.
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Obviously this means there may be arbitrarily many paths which reference the same data item. This is intended.
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Obviously this means there may be arbitrarily many paths which reference the same data item. This is intended.
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## Related functions
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## Related functions
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