OpenEuphoria

Re: Do you currently use namespaces?

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at gmai??com> May 22, 2008
• 1393 views

Bernie Ryan wrote:
> 
> Matt Lewis wrote:
> > 
> > Bernie Ryan wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > >  No, because it never really worked that well.
> > 
> > I hear this complaint a fair amount.  Bernie, could you elaborate on what
> > didn't work well for you?
> > 
> 
> Matt:
> 
>     When ever I tried to use it was because I ran into a conflict with 
>     a function name so I would assign some qualifier to the include file.
>     Then when I added that include file some function would conflict with
>     some other file. In larger programs it just cascaded into having to
>     add too many function qualifiers. I became very frustrated, so I quit
>     using other user's libraries and just started writing my own functions
>     and using only libraries that come with the Euphoria install. 

Is this an accurate example of what you were seeing?

-- libfoo.e
global procedure baz(...)

...
   baz(...)

-- libbar.e
global procedure baz(...)

...
   baz(...)

-- app.ex
include libfoo.e
include libbaz.e

....

In other words, there were conflicts not just in your code, but within
the libraries themselves?  This was a problem.  It's fixed now.

Otherwise, it sounds like they were doing exactly what they were designed
to do.  How else would you have solved the problem?

Matt