OpenEuphoria

Re: Namespace clobbering internals

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at y??oo.com> May 01, 2008
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Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
> 
> CChris wrote:
> > 
> > If someone somewhere overrides a builtin, I guess that the purpose is to
> > extend
> > the builtin without changing its normal processing. 
> 
> This is not the case, Please see my post:
> 
> <a
> href="http://www.openeuphoria.org/EUforum/m20279.html">http://www.openeuphoria.org/EUforum/m20279.html</a>
> 
> --
> Jeremy Cowgar
> <a href="http://jeremy.cowgar.com">http://jeremy.cowgar.com</a>

What you describe isn't overriding, it's overloading. 

The namespace proposals so far (default namespace in include, eu namespace for
builtins) should enable overloading.

Unless I'm missing something in the conversation.

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j.