ludic/changes/declared-namespaces.md
Orkuncakilkaya 9259808f80 feat(lang): L6 namespaces declared in Ludic - alias
`alias meth(labels) = target` in a namespace block makes Ns.meth a call to
target with those labels (the target's own parameter names without a list). The
engine's 41 table-driven namespaces - 438 methods: Http, Udp, Process, Json,
Value, Screen, Input, Audio, World, Tiled, ... - leave emit_ns_call for
runtime/native/namespaces.ludic, spliced into every program; 532 lines of
compiler go and the seed shrinks by 23k lines of IR. The game's IR is byte
identical. The checker checks an alias call's arguments against its target.
Still built in: the inline namespaces (Math, Text, List, Vector, Color, Time,
Date, ...) and the methods that pick a target by argument type.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 02:40:57 +03:00

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bump: minor
type: feature
**Namespaces are declared in Ludic.** `alias meth(labels) = target` in a `namespace` block makes
`Ns.meth(...)` a call to `target`, taking named arguments by those labels; with no label list the
target's own parameter names are the labels. The engine's 41 table-driven namespaces - `Http`,
`Udp`, `Process`, `Json`, `Value`, `Screen`, `Input`, `Audio`, `World`, `Tiled` and the rest, 438
methods - moved out of the compiler into `runtime/native/namespaces.ludic`, and a package owns an
API the same way. The code a program compiles to is unchanged byte for byte, and the checker now
checks an alias call's arguments against its target.