[Cuis-dev] recommendations for class name prefixes

[Andres Valloud]

What is a "program"?

On 6/22/24 8:50 PM, Luciano Notarfrancesco via Cuis-dev wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto:juan at cuis.st>> wrote:
> 
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>     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 <mailto: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?
>>
>>         ---
>>         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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