how things go wrong between packages
Lex Spoon
lex at lexspoon.org
Fri Feb 16 16:11:18 UTC 2007
<bryce at kampjes.demon.co.uk> writes:
> Lex Spoon writes:
> > SmallDEVS defines a global variable Timer, which conflicts with a
> > class variable in Exupery. I wish the loader would allow this
> > situation, but in 3.9 it does not.
>
> I'll fix that in Exupery. The next release should be out in a few
> weeks. Looking at it, I really should have been using a temporary,
> that variable is only used in one method.
>
> I also agree that the loader should allow it. Personally, I don't
> think we should prevent class variables from having the same name as
> classes. A warning should be enough. The class variable has a local
> scope.
Yes. All that said, if you can make this change, then it will remove
the conflict with SmallDEVS immediately, thus allowing SmallDEVS to go
into the 3.10 stable universe.
-Lex
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