Packages

Packages prevent conflicts when multiple files have declarations with the same name. They accomplish this by grouping all declarations in a file into a namespace. All Safe-DS programs must declare their package at the beginning of the file. Here is an example:

package com.safeds.titanic

It has these syntactic elements:

• The keyword package.
• The name of the package. It consists of multiple parts separated by dots. Each part can be any combination of lower- and uppercase letters, underscores, and numbers, as long as it does not start with a number.

Name convention

• Use lowerCamelCase for all parts.
• Use the reverse domain name notation for the package name.

Multiple files can belong to the same package. However, within the same package the names of declarations must be unique.