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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?




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