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In article <1992Jul24.003009.10647@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> yawei@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Ya-Gui Wei) writes:
>In article <1992Jul17.063123.6492@grebyn.com> bittware@grebyn.com (Bittware) writes:
>>I'm having a problem with duplicate function names between a commercial
>>graphics library and the Borland graphics library (moveto).  
...
>
>   One dirty solution would be to patch one of the libraries to change
>one of the names.  I don't know of a cleaner solution.

Another solution is to change to a language with a richer idea of
scoping, such as Pascal or Modula-2.  In Turbo Pascal, for instance,
every library (unit) could have a "moveto", and one would be the default, but
you could access any of the others by specifying which library to get it
from.  The only name clashes that are hard to deal with in TP are
clashes between the names of units; those aren't allowed.

I don't think TP would be a particularly good choice in this case
because its linker is so weak at handling foreign libraries, but  
other Pascal or Modula compilers might be.

Duncan Murdoch
dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca