A little namespace "proposal"

Stéphane Rollandin lecteur at zogotounga.net
Tue Apr 6 18:48:38 UTC 2004


goran.krampe at bluefish.se wrote:
  Currently I think people are a bit "hesitant"
> to claim certain class names because we instinctively feel that they may
> be prone to conflicts.
> 

this is very true ! personal testimony: in my development I wrote 
hundreds of classes, and I'm worried every time a simple obvious name 
comes to mind. so I end up prefixing everything with an ugly and 
meaningless SPFA (my initials), or taking the risk to name a class 
Silence (I'm into music composition)

the problem also arise with new methods for rich classes such as String. 
I had a String>>#format: which I had to rename String>>#sformat: with 3.7

I guess a lot of persons have brilliant ideas about what 
String>>#format: should do... so the need for some kind of namespace is 
obvious to me.


regards,


Stef








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