Re: [Vala] Using aliases

[Tal Liron <tal liron gmail com>]

Sometimes it's absolutely necessary due to naming conflicts between 
imported libraries. Without this feature, Vala is broken in those instances.

There was a patch that I assumed would be accepted (2.5 years ago!), but 
apparently was never merged:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646713

On 12/11/2013 04:19 AM, Evan Nemerson wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 19:54 +0100, pancake wrote:
> > I have asked for this feature several times, but i didnt got a good
> > reply about why Vala doesnt supports this.
> Obviously this is up to Jürg, not me, but I'm against the idea.  It
> makes code harder to read because you have to remember how people mapped
> stuff which becomes especially difficult when switching back and forth
> between several different pieces of code where everyone has stuff mapped
> differently.
>
> This really belongs on the development list (or in a the bug tracker as
> a feature request), not on the user list.  I'm CCing the devel list, if
> anyone wants to continue this conversation let's do it there.
>
>
> -Evan
>
>
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