Script-Fu Command Priority
Samuel wrote:
the GIMP Script-Fu engine doesn't make a difference between registered
definitions and local ones.
[snip]
It would be nice if GIMP could prefer local definitions to global ones
or if just registered definitions would go global.
A define placed inside another define can only be used locally by code in the
enclosing define.
What you are probably referring to is how a define that is global to code in
one file can conflict with a define in another file if the names are the same.
This is due to all script files are read in to a single block of memory used
by the interpreter.
To avoid the problem, nest defines when you don't need something to be
accessible from in another define in a given file. If a define (ie. function)
needs to be global so it can be access in multiple define blocks in a file,
avoid using generic names that someone else might have used in another file.
One way to avoid name collision is the prepending of your initials to your own
defines.
