[squeak-dev] Re: Exploiting a new method trailer format(s)

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Wed Dec 23 16:58:49 UTC 2009


On 23.12.2009, at 15:13, Igor Stasenko wrote:
> 
> 2009/12/23 Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de>:
>> Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>> 
>>> There is a basic class, BasicSourceCodeManager
>>> which declares protocol, so you can make a subclass of it. Also, it
>>> doesn't forcing you to use sourcePointer to be only integer values.
>> 
>> Do us all a favor and do NOT name classes "Basic" or "Abstract" or "Pure".
>> Such names show utter lack of understanding of the problem domain. Being
>> abstract follows from the abstract concept represented (Behavior, Number,
>> Collection, String) and concrete entities have more concrete names (Class,
>> LargePositiveInteger, WeakSet, ByteString).
>> 
> 
> okay, is SourceCodeManager name abstract enuf for you ? :)

"Manager" is not really descriptive either ;)

I'm trying to remember where I read about how to name classes. Maybe it's one of Kent's Best Practice patterns.

- Bert -





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