Re: Weighing in on everything
Matt Lewis wrote:
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> CChris wrote:
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> > Matt Lewis wrote:
<snipped, as obviously we have different sort of coding in mind>
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> > > We talked about walking back up that chain, but therein madness lies, I
> > > think. The metric would likely get very complex, and certainly confusing
> > > to developers, who wonder why otherwise functioning libraries break for
> > > strange reasons.
> >
> > You lost me there.
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> This relates to overriding globals and namespaces, and if there are multiple
> matching symbols at some level of inclusion below the namespaced file,
> should we attempt to measure how far down each is, and then use the higher
> in preference to the lower. This idea was dumped pretty quickly.
>
Oh, ok.
The depth of a symbol up or down the tree shouldn't matter, because the shapes
of the third party libs are not under the app coder's control. However, I can see
quite a few cases where it would make sense to add symbols that come upstream, ie
in the parent file or higher.
CChris
> Matt
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