I was working with two different javascript libraries today and ran into the issue that brought about namespaces in other languages.
Jsval has a class called Field. I wanted to use prototype.js and openrico so... guess what, prototype.js, has the class Field also... So, they stepped on each other toes. I renamed all the Field references is Jsval (because prototype.js is a dependancy for many libraries) and then wrote this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javascript_Namespaces out of frustration. Maybe someone will listen to me and use javascript namespaces.
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