[Gambas-user] Idea for 3.17

[Brian G]

Yes, this sounds most correct so far Benoit!

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 each mistake teaches us something"  .. Morihei Ueshiba
Brian G

----- On May 8, 2021, at 7:24 AM, Benoît Minisini g4mba5 at gmail.com wrote:

> Le 05/05/2021 à 10:52, Christof Thalhofer a écrit :
>> Hi,
>> 
>> what if we could work on namespaces? We already talked about it:
>> 
>> https://lists.gambas-basic.org/pipermail/user/2018-November/065829.html
>> 
>> Alles Gute
>> 
>> Christof Thalhofer
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I read all the mails, but at the moment I didn't have the time to really
> think about it.
> 
> I have nothing more to say that what was in the November 2018 mail, except:
> 
> 1) I don't want to use Java-like namespaces, nor a central namespace
> directory.
> 
> I don't care if namespaces could collide, because when writing free
> software, there is no reason that namespaces conflict more than shared
> libraries names.
> 
> When someone writes a new shared library for Linux/Unix, it chooses a
> name that nobody has chosen before. It's common sense, and it's enough
> for me to do the same thing with Gambas. People will have to collaborate
> intelligently.
> 
> 2) Nobody should write components outside of the Gambas source tree. It
> is not intended to work, even if it does.
> 
> People must write libraries. And you choose the order in which you load
> libraries in your project. So the problem in conflicting names is the
> same as when you use shared libraries.
> 
> A way to export a class, not in the global table but in a library's
> table, and a way to use a class explicitly from a library's table,
> should be enough to deal with name conflicts.
> 
> A library that export a class in the global table wants to extend the
> Gambas language (in some way).
> 
> Otherwise a library should export the class in its local table. But then
> you can't use it directly, you must specify the library name somewhere
> (the namespace, i.e. which table you must search).
> 
> But as I said, I don't think about that enough.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --
> Benoît Minisini
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