[ANN] TextFiles published on SqueakMap
Brent Pinkney
brent.pinkney at aircom.co.za
Thu Aug 7 06:16:55 UTC 2003
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 20:34:19 +0200, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de>
wrote:
> Hi Doug,
>
>> How about the name TextFileStream?
>
> Thought about that too, but rejected it as both, "too long" ;-) and not
> really helpful either (meaning: more intention revealing). Abstractly, I
> don't see much of a difference between a file and a stream. But if people
> think that TextFileStream is a better name, I'll happily change it
> (though
> generally I like short names ;)
>
TextFileStream
vs
OrderedCollection
It doesn't seem extrordinarily long to me. It is a Stream, not a File, so
the benefits of consistent naming are worth it IMHO.
(PS. Perhaps it is to long - I have always wondered why such a commonly
used class like OrderedCollection was not called List. I have always
preferred to 'Huffman code' the names of the common classes, but use long
names for obscure classes where intention revealing is helpful.
Cheers,
Brent
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