OpenEuphoria

Re: Namespace issues

• Posted by Lewis Townsend <keroltarr at HOTMAIL.COM> Jun 28, 2001
• 412 views

Hello Chris,

>I have a crazy idea, but it just might work. Why not have the
>interpreter  automatically rename the conflicts. It would go through
>all the include files and rename the conflicts for you. Could this
>work?

It's a nice original idea but it would still need to be used
in conjunction with a prefix mechanism or something.
It would work as long as you didn't try to reference the a symbol that
got renamed!  How do you know it's going to get renamed? And how do you 
know what it will be renamed to? Imagine this:

FileA.ew
global atom x

FileB.ew
global atom x

FileC.exw
include FileA.ew
include FileB.ew
x = 1

If FileB's "x" got renamed, how would you know how to reference it.
Or how would Euphoria know to change FileC's "x" reference as well or
to leave it alone?


later,
Lewis Townsend