55861 - XPIDL needs a namespacing facility

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: XPCOM, defect, P5)

Description

[Braden]

We need to move away from ns* and toward a sensible namespacing facility. OMG
IDL uses "module", which has a syntax similar to C++'s namespace.

For languages which don't have a concept of namespaces, or for which namespaces
can't be used for some reason or other, XPIDL can flatten the name path to a
single canonicalized identifier. For example,

  module Foo {
    module Bar {
      interface Baz {};
    };
  };

might compile to C++ as

  interface Foo_Bar_Baz {};

Comment 1

[Phil Schwartau]

Mass-reassigning mccabe's non-JS, non-Rhino bugs to jband (34 total). 

Would like to cc mccabe; but the mass-reassign page does not allow this. 
I'll leave it up to mccabe to decide if he wants to be cc'ed on these - 

Comment 2

[John Bandhauer]

mass reassign of xpidl bugs to [e-mail]

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I don't think we should do this without XPConnect support and probably just shouldn't do it at all.