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Re: Namespaces (redux) [message #32300 is a reply to message #32237]

Thu, 26 September 2002 07:58

JD Smith
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Registered: December 1999

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On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 16:28:05 -0700, Craig Markwardt wrote:

> JD Smith <jdsmith@as.arizona.edu> writes: [ ... ]
>> Markwardt:
>>> It is notable that in almost every case, the offending entity for
>>> these types of namespace clashes is none other than Research Systems
>>> Incorporated. We should be preaching to them.
>>
>> On that point I fully agree. And I have. I'm sure RSI feels a
>> distinct and righteous ownership of the IDL namespace and believes that
>> routines in !DIR are free to trample all over it. Here's an
>> interesting random bit of output from IDLWAVE's shadow detection:
> [ ... ]
>
> Interesting. Your shadow detection code would probably detect some
> problems with my library routines. For distribution I occasionally
> insert one routine into another. In my own library I keep them
> separate, but for distribution, I don't want people to have to bother
> with too many files, so sometimes they are merged. So you will detect
> DEFSUBCELL in more than one file, for example.

That's right... all the dirty little secrets and long forgotten skeletons
come tumbling out of the closet under the eagle-eyed scrutiny of IDLWAVE.
Actually, the other day I found that I had three modified copies of
XMANAGER lying about on my path (don't ask), and very occassionally one of
these butchered alternatives was getting called. So even if the world of
IDL users suddenly repented and created an international naming tribunal
to adjudicate and settle conflicts, shadow detection would still have a
place ;)

JD

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