From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-04-13T10:36:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Designing Namespaces


On Apr 11, 2008, at 11:13 AM, Robert Dober wrote:
> Very interesting approach Ara, allow me to express some skepticism
> about the shortcut delivering either the class or an instance of it.
> The idea is sure enough brilliant as a solution to name pollution, I
> wonder however if it is not a maintenance trap...
> Now if it became a well known pattern this danger would go away. In
> order to easier recognize the pattern I would suggest to use
> Capitalized names for your shortcut/factory methods. How does that  
> feel?

i've gone back and forth a few times

	Foo.Bar

throws my brain for a loop though, so i've tended toward

  	Alib.util.snakecase 'FooBar'

but i'm not religious about it...

cheers.

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