On Sep 20, 2007, at 9:12 PM, Ramon Leon wrote:

>>
>> Magritte and Magma already both very nearly use the same prefix, "MA"
>> and "Ma", respectively.  It's hard for me to accept, after
>> all this discussion and effort and say Göran's finally makes
>> it into the base image, that I could very easily collide with
>> Magritte unless at least one of us renames a bunch of stuff.
>
> We use two letter prefixes because we're forced to see them and  
> type them
> constantly, with Göran's proposal, it'd be much more common to use
> Magritte:: or Magma:: as the prefix since you wouldn't be typing  
> it, it'd
> resolve naturally when you just used the short class name.  Granted  
> this
> doesn't help existing packages with short prefixes, but it'd help  
> new code.
> If it worked well, I'd sure take the time to rename my code to use it.


I completely agree with this as well - I would have no problem adding  
longer prefixes to my code, and would make class names more readable  
when they weren't shortened by the tools...


- Brian