[Gambas-user] Library and File

[Tobias Boege]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> Can you elaborate with a precise example?
> 
> Each library already has its own namespace.
> 
> Only the exported classes share the same namespace, and if two libraries
> export the same class, then that usually means they want to do the same
> thing and cannot be used simultaneously.
> 

For me, the main point, I think, is to be able to make classes available
without exporting them, and then being able to address and use them
unambiguously. In the topic of this thread, one could provide a Help.class
(rather, Help.module if you think about it) in all libraries that care
to expose their help file to the main program. Since "Help" might be a
common symbol name to export, the developer might choose not to export
to avoid overwriting someone else's Help or becoming a Help that is being
overwritten by someone else.

In that case, the class should still be available from some prefix:

  MyLib1::Help.Get()  ' the Help.module from MyLib1.gambas

(Or any other kind of prefix, like vendor names as Christof suggested.)

Regards,
Tobi

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