On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 00:36:36 UTC, thebluepandabear
wrote:
It's not a freedom issue, it's a library-design issue. Some
libraries want to incorporate a namespace-like design to force
the user to be more 'explicit' with what they want.
SFML has a `Keyboard` namespace which has a `Key` enum.
The user is 'forced' (although I am not sure if this is the
case since it's C++) to use the `Keyboard.` declaration before
using the `Key` enum. Looking at code block 1 and 2, which
makes more sense?
Pretty sure you can strip namespaces in any language that has
namespaces, C# routinely does it and refers to all types with
their nonqualified names. It even has Keys enum:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.windows.forms.keys which is referred to as Keys after stripping the System.Windows.Forms namespace.
