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Wiep Corbier wrote: People will ask, which Richard?
There has to be some way to disambiguate the two people. Usually you would use the surname.
It's no different with classes. If you have two classes with the same name, then they have to be in different namespaces so that you can disambiguate them.
Otherwise, even if you could come up with an intellisense popup to let you pick a class - which could be difficult if the only difference is one character on line 42! - there would be no way to represent that choice in the compiled program.
And before you suggest that the compiler could generate some form of "mangled" name to uniquely identify the class, remember that you'd also have to represent that choice in the source code. And the source code is meant to be read by humans. There are enough arguments against using var when the type isn't clear, without making an explicit variable type ambiguous as well!
Wiep Corbier wrote: C# (8?) now has the ability to work around null values in classes.
Who asked for that? I didn't.
Who cares? No one.
Lots of people asked for it, and lots of people care. You can probably find the history in the C# Language Design repository:
GitHub - dotnet/csharplang: The official repo for the design of the C# programming language[^]
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Richard Deeming wrote: There has to be some way to disambiguate the two people. Usually you would use the surname.
Doesn't always work. In my family history, there is a case of three boys, born of the same parents, two of them in the same year, all with the same name. The first one was born shortly after New Year, but lived for only a few days - long enough to be baptized. The second one was born in December the same year, and lived for about a year. The third one, born a couple of years later, grew up to an adult.
When I looked up the name of their paternal grandfather, I was not very surprised: The three boys were named after him. In those days, having a heir to carry your name on, one who grew up to carry the lineage on, was essential.
But I digress.
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It would still be very confusing if they had all made it to a family gathering. You'd have to resort to pointing at the person you meant. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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For two of them it would be pointing towards the graveyard. They never lived at the same time.
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Richard, I know that what I want isn't possible.
That's the reason why I post this.
It is a nice to have for me and probably someone else.
But what about something else like it: inheritance.
Why?
Are people to lazy to copy properties?
inheritance is not a must. It is a nice to have.
btw: I did predict you would mention the surname
Richard?
Which Richard?
Richard String or Richard List?
ps: just for fun.
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Inheritance is a useful tool for encapsulating state and/or behaviour. It can be overused, but at the moment in C# it doesn't introduce any contradictions or ambiguity. C# doesn't have multiple inheritance, so it doesn't suffer from the "diamond problem"[^].
I'm still struggling to see what problem you think your idea would solve. All I can see is code where I can't tell whether you meant this FooBar.Baz class, or that FooBar.Baz class, because they both have identical names.
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- Homer
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Wiep Corbier wrote: It is a nice to have for me and probably someone else.
Not really. Even if the feature were there, when you went back a day later and looked at your code you'd have no idea which class the code was referring to.
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Richard Deeming wrote: There has to be some way to disambiguate the two people.
I think the OP is asking for the computer to do that. In other words I write
SomeClass temp = new SomeClass();
and up pops some intellisense so that I can pick SomeClass from file1 or SomeClass from file2. Internally, C# would clearly have to track which one it is. Which makes this idea even worse because if you come back the next day to read your code you won't know which one it actually refers to.
It could be done, and probably not too hard with some sort of internal tracker in VS but a terrible idea regardless. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Wiep Corbier wrote: A person walkes in and asks for Richard. People will ask, which Richard? (popup intelli)
OK, how is the compiler going to "popup a dialog" to ask which version of the class you want when you try to "new it up"?
CandidateFunction newCandidate = new CandidateFunction()
WHICH "CandidateFunction" does the code "new up"? How is it going to know? There's no way for the compiler or the code to generate a prompt to ask. Even if it was possible, the UI type of the app comes into play. Is this a Console app? Windows Forms? WPF? ASP.NET? Each handles prompting the user is different ways, so how is the compiler to know which to use?
Oh, and how about apps with no user interface at all, like Window Services and WebAPI? How is that prompt supposed to show up?
This would have to be prompted for at compile-time. There's absolutely no way to do this at run-time.
On top of that, how is the compiler to know which type of object it is when you go to use that object elsewhere?
Did you really think about this before posting? If you want this, then it's your skill set that needs to be improved, not the compiler.
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Wiep Corbier wrote: But imagine this. You work in a office room with a colleguea also called Richard.
A person walkes in and asks for Richard. People will ask, which Richard? (popup intelli)
Got it?
I think he got it at the very beginning.
But at which point do you want the intelli pop up to come?
At compiling time... ok, do you know with of the functions is needed in each 62 places where the name is used?
Maybe you do now... but then you go to another project and then you have to make some additions 3 or 4 years later... or you leave and another guy gets in your project... or the project is so big that there are several people working on the same area at the same time... good luck when compiling (and don't forget to start one hour before the test because you will need some time to click all popups).
At execution time... how will the user know, which class is the one needed? Ok, maybe your user knows it, but how will my user know it? Or the new customer's employee.
What are the consequences of a bad selection? Good if I see I have selected the wrong option soon enough, but what if they don't realize it? Are the differences between the classes compatible? Will you need plausibility checks? How can you choose which plausibility check is needed each time?
it is already difficult enough to get the exact result you (and they) want as it is, if you add ambiguity on top... I don't even want to imagine it.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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modified 22-Jun-20 12:30pm.
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No.
Because - frankly - it's a dumb idea. Selecting class types at run time based on what the user decides is a recipe for convoluted, messy code that doesn;t work well in practice because users are not developers. That means that have no idea what a class is, or why they want to select one.
If you want users to decide what to create, ask them "Do you want a Candidate, or a Candidate with skills?" and explain what the difference is in their terms and what effect the decision will have. You cannot "leave that to the system" and get them to choose based on two similar names.
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Wiep Corbier wrote: Will this ever happen and if not, why not?
I hope not. There is enough confusion in programming languages without adding to it.
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What this, another Richard?
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Yes, but if you check my full name you will find I am different from the other one (he knows much more than me).
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So, it is possible to have more than one Richard. 
Maybe this could be true for Classes. Not yet, in the future. ![Java | [Coffee]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
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Wiep Corbier wrote: So, it is possible to have more than one Richard.
Yes, but you can tell which is which by our full names.
Wiep Corbier wrote: Maybe this could be true for Classes. Not yet, in the future
Not ever; as mentioned more than once, it's a dumb idea.
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Like electric cars, dumb idea, petrol heads said.
Because, they don't know better.
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Which has absolutely nothing to do with your question.
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That is true. It has to do with the fact you call it dumb.
That isn't very constructive.
But don't waste your time on me.
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Sometimes, the most constructive thing you can be told is "that is a dumb idea - don't waste any more of your time on it". And one of the hardest things we have to do as developers is recognise that fact about our own stuff and throw it away and start again.
We all do it: I had a brilliant scheme laid out - pages and page of design documents, using abstract classes to their full extent: everything was beautiful, it would be perfect. Except ... C# doesn't have abstract static methods. And for very, very good reasons.
So the whole lot: design, code, the whole idea was a pile of garbage, and I had to chuck it and start again.
That really is hard to do, but it's part of the job. Yes, I could have bodged round the problem, hacked it here, forced it there - but the result would be clumsy, hard to work with, and difficult to maintain; as well as having a lot of "holes" for bugs to hide.
Trust us: this is an idea you should drop!
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That is what car makers told Elon Musk.
Trust us, your idea is never going to work.
They said: Where do you get electricity? How do you store your energy source? What will be the range? Etc.
No, the big shots told him: it will not work.
Tesla is today the biggest car builder.
If you think in unpossibilities you will never innovate.
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Wiep Corbier wrote: It has to do with the fact you call it dumb.
I don't call it dumb, it is dumb. And the argument re petrol or electric cars is not even remotely connected. Electric cars are all easily identified as different from their petrol counterparts.
Wiep Corbier wrote: don't waste your time on me.
At last a sensible suggestion.
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Ten years from now, kids will honestly believe that Elon Musk invented the electric car, and all later (and earlier) electric cars are derived from the Tesla series.
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Well they have to teach them something in school.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Well they have to teach tell them something in school.
Teaching is slowly disappearing, specially quality teaching 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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