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:: before global functions



Date: Mon, 9 Apr 90 09:58:04 PDT
   From: eric@son-of-blob

	   From tribble Sun Apr  8 18:09:39 1990
	   From: tribble (Eric Dean Tribble)
	   Subject: :: before global functions

	   I just made all global functions print with '::' before them.  I had a
	   case where the method 'black' was calling a global functions named
	   'black'.  It got very confused....

	   Note that we already put '::' before pseudo-constructors.  My only
	   worry is that this will put :: before inappropriate things.  'Integer
	   IntegerVar: num' will translate to '::IntegerVar(num)'.

	   dean


   ::IntegerVar(num) doesn't work at all.  Hugh and I have fixed my version
   of the translator to print :: in front of all functions, except IntegerVar:,
   which seems to be a unique case (if others are found a more general solution
   will be needed).

   This change is in ech-b.cha.  Also in this file there are various compilability
   fixes as well as a repair to the CxxBrowser so that it believes that the text
   is saved when you ^S on a meta class definition text pane.

	   - e -  with the assistance of heh

There are a couple of places where the Manipulator code calls global
functions that translate to macros in C++. They will not work with ::
in front of them. We can either (a) use some criterion like upper case
letters or (b) have a list of functions shouldn't have ::
(sounds better to me); anything without a :: shouldn't have spaces
after the comma either, as it screws up symbol concatenation. (I put
in a hack for this that we should take out once we get a better
solution).
	--ravi