Re: [Flightgear-devel] New SimGear Class definition

2001-12-18 Thread Erik Hofman
Bernie Bright wrote: I've been using the Boost libraries (http://www.boost.org) for some time now and that is what they do. Portability is one of Boost's goals. I also wouldn't mind the opportunity to refactor the compiler configuration stuff similar to how Boost has done it. This might

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New SimGear Class definition

2001-12-18 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: Erik Hofman writes: David Megginson wrote: I agree strongly on namespaces -- they'll eliminate some of our MSVC conflicts as well, especially if people avoid using global #defines whenever possible. Do all of our target compilers now support them?

Re: [flightgear-devel] New SimGear Class definition

2001-12-18 Thread Andy Ross
Erik Hofman wrote: Please correct me if I'm wrong, but to my understanding namespaces are like classes but without the overloading and such? Namespaces are just namespaces. :) Some languages call them packages or modules, but the idea is really simple: a symbol (function, class, global

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New SimGear Class definition

2001-12-18 Thread Frederic Bouvier
projects that span over multiple files without clumsy #include in the class definition. I vote for namespaces -Fred - Original Message - From: David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 12:46 PM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] New SimGear Class

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New SimGear Class definition

2001-12-17 Thread Bernie Bright
Erik Hofman wrote: Hi, Today i have taken some time to take a look at the SimGear code and decided it might be time to create a new class definition. I'm not sure this is the right time to discuss about it. But then again, I always have the feeling it might not be the right time. ;-)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New SimGear Class definition

2001-12-17 Thread David Megginson
Bernie Bright writes: Refactoring SimGear is probably a Good Thing since it has accumulated some cruft over time and some areas need reworking. However I don't think that having bogus top level classes is a good idea. Instead I propose we use namespaces. Perhaps a top level SimGear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New SimGear Class definition

2001-12-17 Thread Bernie Bright
David Megginson wrote: Bernie Bright writes: Refactoring SimGear is probably a Good Thing since it has accumulated some cruft over time and some areas need reworking. However I don't think that having bogus top level classes is a good idea. Instead I propose we use namespaces.