Re: ‘ERROR’ was not declared in this scope

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Di, 2013-12-03 at 16:30 +0100, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > Please try to be nicer.
>
> Sorry my "rage" came across as actually being upset. See, this is why I
> put that smiley at the end. I really enjoy working with GTKmm and can
> barely grasp how much effort was put into it and GTK+ as well. Seriously.
>
> > That is not wise for you to do, or for MS Windows to do. You should
> try to prefix your API with a namespace name to avoid such problem.
>
> Well, my application is basically just that, an application and not an
> API for anyone to interface with. But the turds at MS who defined ERROR
> should know better (they get paid for that, at least). I used a macro
> ERROR (which, afaik can't be scoped) to report issues happening in a
> specific function and line. Adding a prefix MYPROG_ERROR() would only
> lengthen the source and I already have increased my column width to 100
> (so sad I didn't manage 80) I want to spell out identifiers
> ("self-documenting source code") but also would like to keep their names
> at a reasonable length.

You have proved to yourself that this is not a good idea even in your
own application code. This is not a gtkmm problem.

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