[Laszlo-user] [Laszlo-dev] situation where the view-instance, class-naming convention doesn't work

[André Bargull]

A few people on the forum do use this feature, therefore I'm cc-ing 
laszlo-user.

> Do we really need to allow that though? It seems like: a) This is just 
> another way to get the effect of defining a class (or mixin), but with 
> none of the benefits. b) Since this is the first we have seen of it, 
> probably a little-used feature. Could we scale back the set of things 
> you do with includes at this point to be more like a normal language? 
> I feel like some of the flexibility there was only needed in early 
> stages of the language and perhaps are not so important now. On 
> 2008-05-09, at 11:12 EDT, Henry Minsky wrote:
>> > Yeah I  forgot you could <include> code into anyplace except the top  
>> > level.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 11:08 AM, P T Withington <ptw at pobox.com> wrote:
>> >
>>     
>>> >> We'd have to know that the two classes were identical too, which  
>>> >> should be
>>> >> possible since you have your hands on the source element.  
>>> >> Alternatively, we
>>> >> could add a UID to the name.
>>> >>
>>> >> I guess I didn't consider this case, that you might include the  
>>> >> same file
>>> >> more than once!
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> On May 9, 2008, at 8:46, "Henry Minsky" <hminsky at laszlosystems.com>  
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> In the example scrollbar_example.lzx, there is a <include> which is  
>>> >> used to
>>> >> include a file twice, which contains
>>> >> a view that has a method (oninit-handler) in it.
>>> >>
>>> >> This causes the compiler to generate two class declarations with  
>>> >> the same
>>> >> name:
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> cd examples/components/
>>> >> badtzmaru:components hqm$ lzc --runtime=swf9 scrollbar_example.lzx
>>> >> Compiling: scrollbar_example.lzx to scrollbar_example.lzr=swf9.swf
>>> >> Compilation errors occurred:
>>> >> org.openlaszlo.sc.CompilerError: cannot declare class name more  
>>> >> than once:
>>> >> "$lzc$class_view_$$2E$2E$2F$2E$2E$2Fexamples$2Fcomponents 
>>> >> $2Ftestmedia$2Ffrosty$2Elzx_1_21"
>>> >> badtzmaru:components hqm$
>>> >>
>>> >> Maybe we need to have something that checks if one of these  
>>> >> generated class
>>> >> names is  identical
>>> >> to one previously generated, and simply skip generating it more  
>>> >> than once.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> --
>>> >> Henry Minsky
>>> >> Software Architect
>>> >> <hminsky at laszlosystems.com>hminsky at laszlosystems.com
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>>       
>> >
>> >
>> > -- 
>> > Henry Minsky
>> > Software Architect
>> > hminsky at laszlosystems.com
>>