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by mappu 4755 days ago
Was there a rationale to choosing performActionOnStruct() names instead of the perhaps-more-idiomatic struct_perform_action() style?

I strongly advise against putting identifiers like release() and getCString() in the global namespace, that's probably not the wisest idea if you plan to use libraries other than your own.
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theck01 4755 days ago
Some bad habits from Java are the only reason. I thought about having obrelease and obgetCString. Putting ob at the beginning of every function seems like overkill, and I don't like that only some functions had would have ob at the beginning if I didn't do a global name change. Any suggestions?
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mappu 4754 days ago
> Putting ob at the beginning of every function seems like overkill

That's "C-style namespaces" - really the only sane way to avoid an identifier collision, sorry.

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