Proposal to Adopt the Namespaced Interfaces Pattern as a Best Practice for IC Developers

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Let me expand on what I mean:

type Dip20 = record {
  transfer: func(Principal, Nat) -> (TxReceipt);
  ...
};

type SNSLedger = record {
  transfer: func(TransferArgs) -> (TransferResponse);
  ...
};

service : {
  interfaceDIP20: () -> (DIP20);
  interfaceSNSLedger: () -> (SNSLedger);
  ...
}

It does add one level indirection (only when initially setup to talk to such a canister, not for every call), but there are many benefits, the least of which is that this is already supported on IC and requires no extra change at system level.

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