On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 at 13:54:45, François Van Emelen wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>Speaking of Sbasic... Wouldn't it be nice to avoid 'word clashes' by
>following some kind of convention?
>An example to illustrate this?
>I've just discovered W. Lenerz' ARRAY_BIN. Nice extension, but
>unuseable. Why? It contains 'sort' and 'search' and these words are
>already present in other extensions that I use every day.( reset,
>search,sort,count,lower$,upper$,... are used in at least 3
>toolkits/extensions ... and they aren't compatible).
>Why not adopt the approach used in 'ProWeSs' and 'ProForma', where all
>the functions and procedures have meaingful names and all start with
>'PW_' or 'PF_' ?
How about someone being appointed as a name server.
Anyone adding to QDOS/SMSQ for general release should register the name
with one person.
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