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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