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Re: Euphoria Standard Library on UBoard

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo.com> Jul 28, 2005
• 536 views

Bernie Ryan wrote:
> 
> Alexander Toresson wrote:
> > 
> > Juergen Luethje wrote:
> > > 
> > > Jason Gade wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Tommy Carlier wrote:
> > > >
> 
> > Solution: create a mutex which is locked when enum() and the other functions
> > in enum.e
> 
> You already have a conflict with your standard Library
> if you enum() function because the global function exists
> in my libraries. So you better come up with a different name.  
> 
> Bernie
> 
> My files in archive:
> w32engin.ew mixedlib.e eu_engin.e win32eru.exw
> 
> Can be downloaded here:
> <a
> href="http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&win=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=bernie+ryan">http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&win=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=bernie+ryan</a>
> 

Whew, I really wanted to flame on when I read this, but I collected my thoughts
and will try to present them in a calm manner.

We are trying to come up with a so-called "standard" library.  Since there are
so many libraries and files in the archives, naming conflicts are going to
happen. How many times do 'TRUE', 'FALSE', and boolean() show up?

Maybe we'll call our function 'enumerate()' or
'next_in_a_list_of_unique_numbers()' or whatever. But if enum() is the best
choice, then we will use it. It's certainly better than asdf()!

Users will face a choice: use our library and not yours (or vice-versa) or
namespace one of the libraries.

Since the code in ESL will be public domain (or close to it) people could just
cut-and-paste if the file that includes enum() causes conflict.

Whatever.  No one owns the names, though. And we're a long way off from being an
official part of Euphoria.

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j.