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lloyd@upsilon.cs.fsu.edu (Justin C Lloyd) wrote:

>Does anyone know how to do write a .c file so that you have to include the
>name of c file in any function calls, similar to ada?

There's no automatic way to do this.  You will have to do it by
adopting some convention.

>In ada, for instance:

>   ada.text_io.get(x);

>means there is a collection of procedures named ada (a package), and in that
>one named text_io, and in the text_io collection, one called get.

>Maybe a way to do this by putting everything in a struct? For instance...

>   float_sort.quicksort(float_array);
>   integer_sort.quicksort(int_array);
>   integer_sort.selection_sort(int_array);

You could do just that...

typedef int (*int_sort_fp)(int *), int_sort_f();
typedef int (*float_sort_fp)(float *), float_sort_f();

extern int_sort_f int_sort_quicksort;
extern float_sort_f float_sort_quicksort;

struct
{
    int_sort_fp quicksort;
} int_sort = { int_sort_quicksort };

struct
{
    float_sort_fp quicksort;
} float_sort = { float_sort_quicksort };

>From curiosity, why not just adopt a naming convention that prepends
the package/module names to the function name?  Why not simply call
them int_sort_quicksort() and float_sort_quicksort()?

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