SSE Variable name clash

[dizietemblesssma]

A user of one of my patches tells me that it doesn't work with his sexlabs installed, that mod is too big for me to find a conflict, but I wondered if it could be a variable name clash as I have in one script:

 

Armor[] Slots
Slots = New Armor[31]

 

and sexlabs has in more than one place:

 

; Slots
sslThreadController[] Slots
sslThreadController[] property Threads hidden
sslThreadController[] function get()
return Slots
endFunction
endProperty

 

 

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[IsharaMeradin]

You need more information from the user. What exactly is not working? Under what scenarios is it not working? etc... It could be less a conflict of the same variable name and more a conflict in how the two mods actually function. I'm not familiar with yours or with the other and thus cannot speculate further.

[dizietemblesssma]

You need more information from the user. What exactly is not working?

I'm trying to get that at the moment, but I was trying to ask a general question about the possibility of variable name clashes. If two mods use the same variable names and each mod declares them in the empty state (which I believe means they are baked into the save file?) Then would one expect some problem or other? Because looking back I can see I've used some rather simple variable names - slots,lefthand etc.

I don't want to go back and change all of them:), but if I have created a risk of conflict that doesn't need to be there then I should, although then I'm not sure what happens to save files of users movng to a new mod version with names changed.

 

If I'm engaged in a bad practice of not being unique in names I should stop really:)

 

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[IsharaMeradin]

Variables are tied to the script that they are with. Variable name crossover issues are more of a concern within a single script than it would be with other random scripts. That said, you can going forward use variable names that would be more unique, yet descriptive. I do not think, however, that that would be the cause of your user's problem.

[dizietemblesssma]

Ah, thanks for that, I'm a bit relieved:)

 

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