I can certainly see his point of view. I feel it falls on the Worse is Better side of decision making when he says they make the language definition easier. Wh

I can certainly see his point of view. I feel it falls on the Worse is Better side of decision making when he says they make the language definition easier. While packages may not be a great solution they do at least make the the concept of namespacing explicit and a first class citizen of the language.