Namespacing in kdevelop/lib

[Hamish Rodda]

On Thursday 20 July 2006 05:52, Matt Rogers wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 04:39:43PM +0000, Richard Dale wrote:
> > On Wednesday 19 July 2006 15:41, Alexander Dymo wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 19 July 2006 02:20, Matt Rogers wrote:
> > > > I think it would be a good idea to namespace the classes in under the
> > > > lib
> > >
> > > Are there any concrete reasons to do this?
> > >
> > > > subdir and since i'm not so great at naming things, I'd like to get
> > > > feedback on the following names that manyoso and I came up with on
> > > > IRC.
> > > >
> > > > And the nominees are:
> > > > KDev
> > >
> > > It's already there, but without ::. No sense to change IMHO.
> >
> > Yes, I agree this is the best one if we need to change at all. What
> > problems has the lack of namespaces caused in the past?
>
> There are no problems. It's just an idea. Why must everybody be so
> ambiguous? Anyways, I'll try to be clearer:
>
> I think it would be a good idea to namespace the kdevelop libraries. I
> have no technical reasons for this. I like namespaces. I think it can
> make the code cleaner in a lot of cases. I try to do it whenever it
> makes sense. I think it makes sense here, so I propose it.
>
> Do you want the kdevelop libraries to be namespaced? (yes or no is all I
> need)
>
> If yes, do you have any other ideas for a name?
>
>
> Since I seem to be the only one (besides Adam and Hamish) who seem to be
> pushing things along, I'm just doing what I want when I want, except for
> when I think there might be some controversy. Hence this discussion. If
> the majority of folks don't want namespacing, that's ok. We won't do
> namespacing in that case.

I'm tempted to support namespacing... if only because it should lead to 
forcing us to properly support namespaces in our c++ language support :)

BTW, I learnt that you can have namespace abbreviations recently (while 
implementing namespace support :) so we could have our cake and eat it too.

eg:

namespace KDevelop {
	int foo;
}

namespace KDev = KDevelop;

int test()
{
	return KDev::foo;
}

(iirc)

Cheers,
Hamish.
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