Am 31.08.2016 um 15:31 schrieb Lex Trotman:
I love Lex's ADL example, C++ can seem just crazy :)
Crazy like a Fox, makes the compiler near impossible, but makes lots of stuff "just work" :)
So a much simpler example then (using C syntax to explain since we all know it, but could be any language):
int a; { first_piece_of_code_using_a... float a; second_piece_of_code_using_a .... }
For C/C++ the first piece of code will see `a` as an int and the second piece of code will see `a` as a float, but there are languages (Julia for one) where both pieces of code will see `a` as a float. Again you need language specific knowledge to lookup `a` in the first piece of code.
I think we all agree that help of language-specific plugins is desired/required. No need to restate "we need language specific support" all the time.
We just disagree on how the language-specific knowledge is transported to Geany, other plugins and the user.
Best regards.