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Re: Euphoria Standard Library on UBoard

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo.com> Jul 30, 2005
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Robert Craig wrote:
<snip>
> You and Matt seem to be talking about the same problem and same
> proposed solution. As you might recall, I was initially enthusiastic
> about the solution, but later when it came time to actually implement
> it, I realized that there were a couple of negative aspects that I hadn't
> really thought of when it was first discussed, so I put it aside.
> 
> On January 31, 2005 I wrote:
> >
> >   1. The change was going to add complexity and subtlety to
> >      namespace rules that many people already had trouble
> >      remembering.
> >
> >   2. After porting thousands of lines of C code to Euphoria 
> >      (i.e. the front-end), I had a couple of nasty cases where I 
> >      accidentally declared a global variable in two different files.
> >      No error message was given, yet I was updating two different
> >      variables, not one. It took a while to figure out what was 
> >      happening. Since the proposed change to the namespace rules
> >      would increase the chances of this sort of bug going
> >      undetected, I considered that to be a negative thing,
> >      that would partially offset the positive effect of fewer 
> >      spurious error reports.

The interpreter or translator could issue a warning...

> 
> For the time being, I'd like to leave the namespace issue on the back burner,
> until we gather more information from people reporting actual, real-life
> (as opposed to imagined or theoretical) namespace problems. Maybe later
> we can take another stab at it. 
> 
> For some reason this feature has generated far more discussion than 
> it deserves, given the small percentage of users who actually 
> encounter symbol conflict problems.
> 
> Before implementing this feature, there was a full discussion
> on this list of how it should work. I believe Derek, Matt, Irv
> and many others were involved. I proceeded under the assumption 
> that, while they may have preferred other designs, they did not 
> see any obvious defects in this design.
> 
> Regards,
>    Rob Craig
>    Rapid Deployment Software
>    <a href="http://www.RapidEuphoria.com">http://www.RapidEuphoria.com</a>
> 


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