Are namespaces a good idea for game development? Like, if I do like this:Code:namespace Polarr
{
namespace Engine
{
extern class Color;
extern class Vector;
}
namespace Network
{
extern class Server;
extern class Client;
}
}
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Are namespaces a good idea for game development? Like, if I do like this:Code:namespace Polarr
{
namespace Engine
{
extern class Color;
extern class Vector;
}
namespace Network
{
extern class Server;
extern class Client;
}
}
Yes. Anything with more than one "section" should use namespaces.
Namespaces and whitespace are a good idea, they make the code clearer, and laot easier to amend and view. also, in the real world, just think of a program the size of final fantasy XII with out spacing... what a mess it would be!!!
swgh, maybe I'm wrong, but from your post it would apear that you do not know what a namespace is. It has nothing to do with spacing and formatting, it is like a class but you don't create an object for it. They would be important in a large game with many programmers, because if they each have a different namespace, they don't have to worry about giving variables the same name without knowing it.
- SirCrono6
I think namespaces are good, although, with classes and such most namespace clash issues have been resolved, even in larger projects.
I tend to use namespaces to create 'modules', if several classes are always/often used together I group them in a namespace. A quick example (not from a C++ project actually, I used Ruby) is a small app I wrote at work.
It's used to manage the data we have stored about the assets in our company, so each asset is modeled within the class Asset, then I have an AssetCollection class to collect assets and also a Validator class to validate asset IDs (you wouldn't believe how mangled some of the input is ;)).
Each of these are grouped in a module (Ruby's version of namespaces) called Asset, so Asset::Asset, Asset::AssetCollection and Asset::Validator.
I find the best way to think about namespaces is to think of them as logical groupings of classes.
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Originally Posted by swgh
Funny, I thought he was kidding ;).Quote:
Originally Posted by SirCrono6
Eh I don't like namespaces. They ARE a good idea, but I think that it's more personal preference. I guess if you are on a large project...I really just don't like them, I guess it's my problem :(