Jim Weirich wrote:
> I think it only needs to know what the namespaces are at lex time.  You 
> would still need to search the namespaces to find the method definition 
> (just as today we search the class hierarchy for the actual method).

I regret not just doing this in the prototype, but I would see the 
lex/parse time handling of namespaces as holding a "slot" that's 
attached to parsed calls, and then at runtime that slot is filled with 
the runtime structures necessary.

- Charlie