From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-11-25T02:46:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Legal symbol names and generics

Hi --

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, John Lam wrote:

> Thanks David, I wasn't really thinking about those corner cases at all
> (reveals the tunnel vision that I have right now).
>
> Are there *any* characters that I can use in Ruby to escape the type
> information in the constant name?

Your original example:

ChannelFactory<IOutputChannel>("
http://www.flickr.com/services/soap/").CreateChannel

looks like it could be:

   ChannelFactory::IOutputChannel.create_channel("http://...")

or just:

   IOutputChannel.new("http://...")

since a class called IOutputChannel presumably is already a "factory"
object.

I suppose you could use underscores to set off parts of names, but
that seems like a solution in search of a problem, and very hard to
read.


David

-- 
David A. Black
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