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Re: Euphoria Standard Library on UBoard

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Jul 29, 2005
• 553 views

irv mullins wrote:
> &gen
> Bernie Ryan wrote:
> > 
> > I been using Euphoria for over 5 years and have had to use
> > different names for my routines many times. I have respected
> > other users names and have had to use a different name.
> > I think that you will find that is why derrek started his
> > his present naming convention in the win32lib. When you and
> > and jason have written a lots of code to contribute to
> > the archive you will understand why it's not easy to come up
> > with different names and then to have to change them.
> > Why don't you prefix your routines as derrek does ?
> 
> Instead of asking all Euphoria users to 'prefix their routines', 
> why not ask RDS to improve namespacing so this isn't a problem?
> 
> Oh, nevermind. I guess I know the answer.

The Euphoria namespace feature does precisely what
is required in this situation. It gives you a way to specify
which global symbol you are referencing, in a situation where
there are multiple included files (usually by different authors)
that coincidentally contain symbols with the same name.
 
Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com