[Gambas-user] Idea for 3.17

[Christof Thalhofer]

Am 09.05.21 um 22:50 schrieb Dimitris Anogiatis:

> So if I understand the concept of namespaces, we're talking about
> merging code from 2 or more classes inheriting and overriding methods
> and properties of those classes.

No, no, no. This happens only *without namespaces*. What you describe is
the standard behaviour of Gambas:

The first class 'Mail' is loaded. The second class 'Mail' which is
loaded afterwards overwrites/inherits the first one.

Sometimes this is a very nice feature. But it is deadly if you want to
use a library with code which was written by someone else which you can
download from Gitlab and integrate in your program.

Because if you load such a library classes with the same names ('Mail'
in the library and 'Mail in your program') will inherit/overwrite each
other and this will crash your program with high probability!

This happens with the current Gambas we all work with.

> How would the inheritance mechanism work? For example let's say we have
> the mail class and we import my class and yours like this (again if I
> understand it correctly... if not please correct me):
> 
> import christof:Mail
> import dimitris:Mail

You can use them independently of each other. There is *no inheritance*.
It is the great advantage of namespaces, again:

*No inheritance*

(To be precise: No automatic inheritance.)

If it helps you then you can see it as if you would call the classes:

'ChristofMail'
'DimitrisMail'

Alles Gute

Christof Thalhofer

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