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- To: "Coordination of admins/developers of the game programming library Allegro" <alleg-developers@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [AD] AL_ prefix clashes with OpenAL
- From: "Matthew Leverton" <meffer@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 17:19:35 -0500
On 7/7/07, Chris Robinson <chris.kcat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Another idea that just came up with on IRC would be to use a struct of
function pointers for the "exported" Allegro functions. The idea would be to
have a struct that contains all the functions Allegro can export, then have
an inline function load them in the user program.
My initial reaction is that it's a bit of an overboard way to resolve
naming collisions and introduces a non-standard / hacky way of
creating namespaces that isn't going to be obvious to the average C
programmer. Unnatural solutions tend to cause problems down the road.
For instance, I wonder how will this plays with third party add-on
libraries, or bindings for languages like D or Python.
But I'm not opposed to any solution (including this one, if it
qualifies) that is well thought out.
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Matthew Leverton