[Cuis-dev] recommendations for class name prefixes

[Luciano Notarfrancesco]

I think it is normal to have name clashes in big systems with a global
namespace, it happens in natural languages as well (and in some languages a
lot more than in english or spanish). I appreciate the simplicity of not
having namespaces, but I think using longer names with extra words is not a
good solution. Even in a base image as small as we have in Cuis there are
some important names already taken like Object, Set and Point. Not being
able to use Set is particularly annoying, since there’s no other name for
sets… but well, it’s ok, it could be worse (in a system with 10k classes,
for example)

On Sun, Jun 23, 2024 at 05:58 Juan Vuletich <juan at cuis.st> wrote:

> On 6/20/2024 2:19 AM, Luciano Notarfrancesco via Cuis-dev wrote:
>
> It’s up to you. I don’t do it, and i think most people in Cuis dont do it
> either (perhaps becase Cuis is smaller than other Smalltalks, so it’s less
> prone to name clashes).
>
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 06:39 Mark Volkmann via Cuis-dev <
> cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:
>
>> From what I understand it is standard practice to add a prefix your
>> classes to avoid name conflicts with classes from other packages. Is it
>> recommended to do this for every class you define? Are there guidelines on
>> choosing prefixes such as their length (2?) and case (all uppercase?) ? Is
>> there a list of well known prefixes used by popular packages that we should
>> avoid using in our own class names?
>>
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>> R. Mark Volkmann
>> Object Computing, Inc.
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>
> The question is: why do names clash? I can think of two reasons:
> - Duplicated concepts. A redesign is in order. Each concept should appear
> once.
> - Names are too generic. Things that are not the same are named the same.
> Renaming is in order to clarify.
>
> The only times I had names clashing, and I still wanted them to coexist
> was during merge of different codebases. For that, a rename with some
> prefix is appropriate. Any prefix would do. It should be as short lived as
> possible.
>
> HTH,
>
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