OpenEuphoria

Re: Do you currently use namespaces?

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at gmail.??m> May 26, 2008
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Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
> 
> Matt Lewis wrote:
> > 

> > It's not a matter of including it twice.  His point was that your code
> > should
> > include what it needs.  Your statement is actually the antithesis of modular
> > programming, IMHO.  Each module should explicitly declare its dependencies.
> > Euphoria has never required this, though it will at least generate a 
> > warning in 4.0.
> > 
> 
> In addition, if you use namespaces, you can forget the fact 100% that anything
> is global throughout the entire program. For instance:

Almost.  Sort of.  You can still get in trouble [theoretically] with
multi-file libraries.  If, say win32lib (not picking on it, just that's
it's the most popular multi-file library out there) had naming conflicts
within other files that were part of the library (w32foo.ew and w32bar.ew),
you would have to include those and add a namespace in addition to including
win32lib.  I doubt anyone has ever encountered this exact problem, but
someone on the internet was wrong again. :)

Matt