Namescopes in Silverlight

posted by  mvrok (14)  15 months ago (nerddawg.blogspot.com)

When you start naming things, you quickly realize that you need a method to disambiguate or resolve conflicts between names. When your sister cried out "Mom! Pete flushed the goldfish down the toilet!", your mom knew the "Pete" your sis was referring to was you, not the kid down the street. That's because she used an implicit name scope to infer.What is a name scope?Nick Kramer describes a name scope or namescope thusly:"In almost all programming languages, nam