OpenEuphoria

Re: A Problem with v2.4 (for Rob)

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de> May 20, 2003
• 410 views

Hello Jim, you wrote:

> On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 04:45:50PM +0200, Juergen Luethje wrote:
>>
>> Hello Jim, you wrote:
>>
>>> In my namespace parser, when looking for "DoSomething", it would first look
>>> at the local routines, then the global ones. If still no match, then it
>>> would
>>> look at the namespaces, one-by-one, (in the order they were created) until
>>> it
>>> found a match. If no match was found then it raised an error.
>>>
>>> Note that my parser didn't raise an error if there were _2_ DoSomeThing's,
>>> since
>>> it stopped after it had found _1_.
>>>
>>> That is arguably a flaw, but perhaps not.
>>
>> All this namespace stuff is quite hairy (at least for my brain 1.0 ).
>> If there was a naming conflict because of 2 or more routines or
>> variables with the same name in the same scope, I'd like the interpreter
>> to raise an error rather than ignore all but the one it found first, for
>> the sake of safety.
>>
>
> A better approach, for the interactive preparser, would be to show all the
> routines in all the namespaces, and ask the user which one to use.

That sounds nice.

> For the interpreter (or noninteractive preparser), flag an error, and abort.
> I'd feel, tho, that the interpreter should flag a warning instead of an error.
>
> <snip>
>>> On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 06:57:52PM +0200, Juergen Luethje wrote:
>>
>> <big snip>
>>
>>>> But using
>>>>    include file1.e
>>>>    include file2.e as i2
>>>>    include file3.e as i3
>>>>
>>>> should work, because any file has an unambiguous namespace. file1.e has
>>>> the namespace "" which is not nothing. Eu IMHO should be able to handle
>>>> that.
>>
>> My point is, that -- from a logical point of view -- here is no naming
>> conflict at all, and I wish that this fact would be realized by Euphoria.
>
> As do I. I did mention, that my namespace parser DOES recognize this fact ...

I must have missed that, sorry! This namespace stuff is almost driving
me crazy. 

> we are in complete agreement on this part, it would seem.
>
> jbrown

Best regards,
   Juergen

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