OpenEuphoria

Re: symbol resolution (was:EuCOM : Attn Matt : String Return Value)

• Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonde?.?o.uk> Oct 12, 2007
• 895 views

Matt Lewis wrote:
> 
> I wonder if we're talking past each other?  I'll adopt your example from
> above:
> 
> }}}
<eucode>
> app.ex
>   include main.e main.e
>     global Z
>     include libAmisc.e
>       if Z then
>     include libA.e
>       global Z
>       include libAmisc.e
>          if Z then
>   ? Z -- back in app.ex
> </eucode>
{{{

> 
> I was talking about how to resolve Z.  I'd say that an unqualified Z in 
> this instance should get you main:Z.

No, I'm really not getting this. Blindly assuming it is always the first Z just
seems completely wrong to me. If I was struggling with some function in libA, and
tried setting or printing Z, I'd be miffed enough when I finally found out about
the Z in main.e. What if (an extra level of nesting and) I then did an "include
libA as A" to force the issue, and it crapped on some previously working use of
unqualified Z later on because of this rule? Just force the namespace qualifier.
It is not as if this case happens very often.

Regards,
Pete

> except for incV.exw
Oh, there was a fix in 3.0.0 for that, quite safe to ignore it now.