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15.8 Namespaces and Other 'gawk' Features
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This minor node looks briefly at how the namespace facility interacts
with other important 'gawk' features.

   The profiler and pretty-printer (*note Profiling::) have been
enhanced to understand namespaces and the namespace naming rules
presented in *note Naming Rules::.  In particular, the output groups
functions in the same namespace together, and has '@namespace'
directives in front of rules as necessary.  This allows component names
to be simple identifiers, instead of using qualified identifiers
everywhere.

   Interaction with the debugger (*note Debugging::) has not had to
change (at least as of this writing).  Some of the internal byte codes
changed in order to accommodate namespaces, and the debugger's 'dump'
command was adjusted to match.

   The extension API (*note Dynamic Extensions::) has always allowed for
placing functions into a different namespace, although this was not
previously implemented.  However, the symbol lookup and symbol update
routines did not have provision for including a namespace.  That has now
been corrected (*note Symbol table by name::).  *Note Extension Sample
Inplace::, for a nice example of an extension that leverages a namespace
shared by cooperating 'awk' and C code.