There can be only one! (global.h)

[Thiago Macieira]

Alexander Neundorf wrote:
>On Monday 06 March 2006 14:51, David Faure wrote:
>> On Monday 06 March 2006 14:00, Peter Kümmel wrote:
>> > Is kio/global.h that useful that it will be included without any
>> > other headers of kio? I just don't know.
>>
>> Yes. KIO::encodeFileName, KIO::decodeFileName, KIO::convertSize,
>> KIO::findCacheMountPoint etc.
>>
>> > > So what's the problem with declaring the problem fixed and moving
>> > > on? ;-))
>> >
>> > I've the impression it's not a good fix.
>>
>> kio/global.h has been around for more than 5 years and never created
>> trouble. The problem came from some wrong buildsystem file.
>
>Yes, but still it's a trap which one can run into. I'd also vote for
> making this really safe by renaming the headers to unique names.

Where possible, yes, simple names should be avoided.

base.h, client.h, server.h, etc.
That kind of name should be avoided.

However, properly prefixing it with a directory name should be safe:
myapp/base.h, for instance

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