Re: Re: shadow-proofing a package
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- Subject: [mg42793] Re: [mg42774] Re: shadow-proofing a package
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 04:33:00 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 11:08 AM, Bill Rowe wrote: > In fact, this is very easy to accomplish with consistent naming > conventions. If all of the exported function names begin with upper > case consistent with Mathematica's internal naming conventions and you > consistently use lower case for working notebooks, there will clearly > be no conflict. In that case, the first approach Selwyn Hollis > mentioned would work fine. There can still be a conflict with another package following the same convention. In fact such conflicts arise even between Mathematica's Standard packages, e.g. try loading: <<Graphics`Polyhedra` and <<DiscreteMath`Combinatorica` Andrzej Kozlowski Yokohama, Japan http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~akoz/ http://platon.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/andrzej/