What does the "Routine Prefix" setting of a package do?

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John Murray · Jul 28, 2016

Studio's "Package Information" dialog, accessed from the context menu of a package on the Namespace tab of the Workspace pane, includes a field titled "Routine Prefix"

Help says this is a "String that is used as a prefix for the routines generated from classes in this package".

But if it set a string here, then recompile a class in the package, it doesn't affect the name of the generated routine(s). Nor does it influence the routine names generated when I create new classes in the package and compile them. I have tested on 2016.1.

The setting gets stored in the RtnPrefix property of the package's %Dictionary.PackageDefinition instance.

But where will I see the effects of setting it to a non-empty value?

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Len Goodkin · Jul 28, 2016

I'm not sure if this is actually used anymore. I believe this was a feature before package mapping it would set the ^oddPKG global to something like: ^oddPKG("User")="<value>" , so that you could have routines be generated with a prefix of your choosing.

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John Murray · Jul 28, 2016

That's what I suspect. And if correct then it's about time the UI and documentation caught up.

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