> On 31 Jul 2018, at 15:58, Konstantin Shegunov <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 2:43 PM, Kai Koehne <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering how we can avoid symbol clashes in static Qt libs + user code.
>
> a) Prefix all symbols with 'q', like we do for exported symbols.
>
> This requires some bigger patches. See e.g.
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/235631/ for renaming all logging
> categories to 'qlc*' in qtbase.
>
> Isn't introducing a private namespace for that purpose an option?
> I think it'd fare better than renaming the symbols, and in the end that's the
> whole reason for having them in the language, right?
> Granted there should be an using clause at the top of the sources that use
> those private methods and explicit scoping for public headers (if any), but
> that should solve the problem I believe. Also patching it up should be
> relatively straightforward.
That seems preferable to the variable renaming, yes.
Tor Arne
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