A little namespace "proposal"
Stéphane Rollandin
lecteur at zogotounga.net
Tue Apr 6 19:49:45 UTC 2004
Chris Muller wrote:
>>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)
>
>
> It's not meaningless because the name conveys that its your style, your
> implementation, your solution to music-composition in a world where there can
> and should be hundreds of music-composition programs, even with lots of
> overlapping functionality.
>
> When I see "MC" it tells me a ton about what to expect from that software.
> Where else could you get so much utility out of two letters?
>
I understand your point. let's say that it is ugly and meaningless to
*me*, when working on my own code, to be reminded every other word that
*I* did write it. heavy ego trip !
cheers,
Stef
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