OpenEuphoria

• Posted by Tony Bucholtz <tony_bucholtz at hotmail.com> Jun 24, 2001
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G'day all

Just to add my $0.02 to the namespace debate...

I like the idea of library namespacing using the syntax
"include <library> as <namespace>". I won't bore you by
repeating all the good reasons already discussed. I'd
also like the ability to define my own namespace, using
syntax like "namespace <namespace>" or similar. What I'd
*really* like to be able to do is something like the
following:

include kdewrap.eu   as kde
include gnomewrap.eu as gnome
include motifwrap.eu as motif
include xwinwrap.eu  as xwindows

namespace lib

sequence whatlib

<some code here>

if equal(whatlib, "KDE")
   lib = kde
elsif equal(whatlib, "GNOME")
   lib = gnome
elsif equal(whatlib, "MOTIF")
   lib = motif
elsif equal(whatlib, "XWINDOWS")
   lib = xwindows
else
   telluser("Yo! Dummy! You didn't choose a library!")
   abort(0)
end if

myvar1 = lib.function1(parms1)
myvar2 = lib.function2(parms2, parms3, parms4)
myvar3 = lib.function27(parms15, parms2)

if condition
   myvar4 = kde.function98(parms11, parms35)
else
   myvar4 = lib.function98(parms11, parms47)
end if

<etc>

Hopefully the above describes my thinking ;)

Regards
Tony