OpenEuphoria

RE: Namespace improvement ?

• Posted by Verne Tice <fredfarkle at highstream.net> Feb 03, 2005
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Chris Bensler wrote:
> 
> 
> Georg Wrede wrote:
> 
> <SNIP> 
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> > Of course this may crap up a lot of existing code. Since I don't have
> > code of my own that is affected by this, I feel QUALIFIED
> > to think about this "objectively".
> > 
> > I think this is a pretty important issue. 
> > 
> > -- Another Euphoric, since Nov. 18, 2004 --
> 
> Realistically, it would break most everybody's code.
> However, the transition would be very minor (change all cases of 
> "include foo" to "global include foo"). I deal with worse scenarios, 
> just trying to rectify the mess that namespacing makes.
> 
> Chris Bensler

Then,

If you don't want to break existing code (or future code based on today's rules
why not make the change:

"local include foo" to make foo's globals actually local to the including
file?

This would simply require that the new behavior be invoked explicity.

Verne Tice