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Re: Newbie seeks guiding hands.
From: |
Gary Benson |
Subject: |
Re: Newbie seeks guiding hands. |
Date: |
Fri, 23 Mar 2001 15:30:27 +0000 (GMT) |
On 23 Mar 2001, Rob Browning wrote:
> Gary Benson <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > One thing I didn't understand was gnucash's use of namespaces. There
> > seem to be at least two in use: gnc and gnucash. Do these
> > differentiate low- and high-level code or something?
>
> Nope. The gnucash code base is a little messy these days. This is
> what you get when one packages lives for a long time, morphing from
> one project (xacc) into another (gncuash). There are quite a few
> inconsistencies in the naming of parts in the code. From the old xacc
> C code, most prominent in the engine, we have xaccFooBar. Newer C
> code uses gnc_foo_bar, and on the scheme side, we most often use
> gnc:foo-bar, though once we migrate to using modules, much of that
> should go away...
How do modules work? Would they, for instance, allow me to write a
function called evaluate, safe in the knowledge that it would not conflict
with functions called evaluate in other parts of the code?
- Re: Newbie seeks guiding hands., (continued)
- Re: Newbie seeks guiding hands., Gary Benson, 2001/03/15
- Re: Newbie seeks guiding hands., thi, 2001/03/19
- Re: Newbie seeks guiding hands., Ariel Rios, 2001/03/19
- Re: Newbie seeks guiding hands., Gary Benson, 2001/03/20
- Re: Newbie seeks guiding hands., rm, 2001/03/20
- Re: Newbie seeks guiding hands., Rob Browning, 2001/03/22
- Re: Newbie seeks guiding hands., Rob Browning, 2001/03/22
- Re: Newbie seeks guiding hands., Gary Benson, 2001/03/23
- Re: Newbie seeks guiding hands., Ian Grant, 2001/03/23
- Re: Newbie seeks guiding hands., Rob Browning, 2001/03/23
- Re: Newbie seeks guiding hands.,
Gary Benson <=
- Re: Newbie seeks guiding hands., Martin Grabmueller, 2001/03/23
- Re: Newbie seeks guiding hands., Rob Browning, 2001/03/23
- Re: Newbie seeks guiding hands., Gary Benson, 2001/03/23
- Re: Newbie seeks guiding hands., Rob Browning, 2001/03/23