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Re: [libobjc] May I tweak objc-api.h?



On 6 Feb, 2004, at 14.10, Alexander Malmberg wrote:


Ziemowit Laski wrote:
On 6 Feb, 2004, at 14.02, Alexander Malmberg wrote:
Ziemowit Laski wrote:
[snip]
So, do you think it would be OK to rename 'class' above to, say,
'super_class'?

This field is used in GNUstep. What do you propose that code should do
to work with both versions? Change the name only if __cplusplus is
defined?

Change the name unconditionally... please? :-)

Only if you can give us a really good answer to the first question. :)


Again: What do you propose that code should do to work with both
versions?

If you rename 'class' to 'super_class' and reference it as 'super_class',
then this will work in all four of our C flavors, so I'm not sure I understand
your question... Or are you suggesting that we do something like


  #ifdef __cplusplus
    Class super_class;
  #else
    Class class;
  #endif

? While possible, I'd submit that this approach will be more confusing in the long run.

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