[Ecls-list] Critical change

Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll jjgarcia at users.sourceforge.net
Thu Jan 18 14:15:26 UTC 2007


2007/1/18, Dean O'Connor <dean.oconnor at ite.com.au>:
> Perhaps it would be a good idea, to prefix *all* exported/global
> functions/vars with "ecl_" even if it means "ecl_cl_" and "ecl_clos_" etc.
> A hassle perhaps, but then there's only 1 prefix (~namespace) to worry
> about.

I do not know. It is not a difficult change, but it will make much of
the code almost illegible. Also, some of the names have probably close
to 32 characters, which is the limit of some compilers around. I
wonder whether we will have problems any time soon.

Juanjo

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