Namespaced Functions

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One of the recurring problems in PipeScript, PowerShell, and programming is the grouping of related functionality.

Namespaces are the way that this is accomplished within many languages.

PowerShell doesn't really support that concept natively, though it has functionality that makes searching by wildcard (and thus namespace, easier).

PipeScript should support the concept of command namespaces.

The namespace of a command is anything before it's last dot or slash.

So, for example:

function Example.foo { } # declares foo in the example namespace

function .\Local\File\Path { } # declares Path in the local.file and local namespace

function github.com/repos { } # declares repos in github.com namespace  

They could either by defined directly or via a syntax transpiler:

example function x {} # becomes function example x {}

.\Local\File function Path { } # declares .\Local\File\Path

github.com/ function repos { } # declares github.com/repos