Re: Namespace pollution in lua.h

["John Belmonte" <jvb@...>]

David Jones wrote:
> The interface to lua, lua.h, does a very good job of avoiding namespace
> pollution.  Most of the identifiers start with lua or LUA which is an
> entirely reasonable part of the namespace to grab.  However...
>
> The following code:
>
> --
> #define index 9
> #include "lua.h"
> /* ... */
>
> LUA_API double         lua_tonumber (lua_State *L, int index);

It's strange to term this "Lua polluting the namespace".  What's polluting
the namespace is the wacky define that's begging for a collision.

If all libraries followed your guidelines, I think we'd never be able to
read program interfaces.

-John