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Re: Some problems with EuServer

• Posted by Derek Parnell <dparnell at BIGPOND.NET.AU> Aug 11, 2000
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Hi Mark,
modifying a 'stamped' include file might just 'unstamp' it.
cheers,
Derek Parnell
dparnell @ vic.bigpond.net.au
Melbourne, Australia
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Brown <mabrown at SENET.COM.AU>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, August 10 2000 23:27
Subject: Re: Some problems with EuServer


| Derek wrote
|
| > I suggest that the authors of libraries that have global
| > functions/procedures, prefix or suffix the global procedure's name
with a
| > short tag that identifies the library file. For example, in win32lib
the
| > "reverse" function could have been named "w32Reverse" or "reverseW32"
or
| > something. This does not absolutely solve the namespace issue but it
| > lessens the potential name conflict.
|
| As a short term solution, would it be worthwhile writing some sort of
| preprocessor
| that could do a search and modify on offending globals using the prefix
;
| suffix
| idea? Run all your includes through it to search for conflicts and have
it
| rename
| any offending globals using a prefix of the users choice?
|
| Mark
|