[Tooling] SG15 Why do we need module name to file name mapping

Scott Wardle swardle at gmail.com
Mon Feb 4 02:20:07 CET 2019


Hi all, 

I have been looking for some information why do we need a level of indirection from module name to module interface file name.  Why are modules names need a different system then header names. 

I have hear that Microsoft was having some problems with name collision. Is there more concrete information about the problem that Microsoft or other companies were having? 

If you have a name collision today with headers we would just make another library that wraps one of the two colliding headers. I name the public header of this new library something different and problem solved. 

So I don’t understand why are we paying for this level of indirection but I probably just don’t understand the problem. 

Scott 


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