[Qt-interest] Names clashing?..

[Rohan McGovern]

Anatoly Burakov said:
> Hi all
> 
> My program uses a library (custom-made). It's got a section with
> communication constants organized into enum's. I am exploring the Qxt
> library and it's got some mingw libraries #include'd. They in turn have
> some #define'd constants and their names are clashing with the names in
> my library (names like DELETE are pretty common...). As i understand,
> when the constant is #define'd namespaces don't affect them.
> 
> Is there an easy solution to my problem (besides not using Qxt and
> changing names in my library)?

Qt itself has a similar problem.  It deals with it by pushing the
problem back to the user of these headers, giving a sensible error
if the user doesn't include them in the right order.

For example, in src/corelib/io/qdatastream.h, there is this:

> #ifdef Status
> #error qdatastream.h must be included before any header file that defines Status
> #endif
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Rohan McGovern
QA Engineer
Qt Development Frameworks, Nokia