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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