OpenEuphoria

Re: routine_id

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Nov 24, 1998
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On Tue, 24 Nov 1998 10:47:05 +0100, Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen <nieuwen at XS4ALL.NL>
wrote:

>Oops, I have a problem (again namespace).
>When I have two include files, that both contain a routine named: "bot_run"
>and "bot_init" and they both use routine_id ("bot_run") and routine_id
>("bot_init"), therefore binding nor shrouding will be possible. Ahh!!
>
>The whole namespace thingie should be handled differently, instead of these
>'hacks'..
>
>Robert ?
>
It's not just 'bots' - almost any program of worthwhile
length runs into this namespace thingy. If we use other
people's includes; Jiri's fonts, for example, we have
to tread carefully. It even becomes a challenge to create
meaningful but non-conflicting names for our own routines
in multiple files.
I hereby re-submit for further discussion my versions of
how it might be handled:

with fonts do -- where fonts.e is an include
 set_background(BLUE)
 ..bla..
end with

with mywin do -- and mywin is another include
  set_background(BLACK)
end with

or, less verbosely (in some cases, more in others)
fonts.set_background(BLUE)
mywin.set_background(BLACK)

Irv