Re: [AD] namespace collision

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Subject: Re: [AD] namespace collision
From: Laurence Withers <lwithers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 19:40:31 +0100

In reply to Hein Zelle <hein@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>My apologies for this silly question, but could someone recapitulate
>(briefly) why the whole topic about name space collisions came up in
>the first place? The suggestions with #define tricks to prefix
>function names seem to give some possible nasty problems so I'd like
>to know why this prefixing would be desirable in the first place.

Things like clear(): this appears in Allegro and in curses, thus
disallowing usage of both libraries together in the same program.

Bye for now,
-- 
Laurence Withers, lwithers@xxxxxxxxxx
                http://www.lwithers.demon.co.uk/

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