[development] when we run out of characters

sime info at urbits.com
Wed May 17 16:09:42 UTC 2006


You mean we're not going to add underscores to all the hooks?
eg. module__hook()

I should have spoken up earlier dammit!


Khalid B wrote:

> Here is the simplest solution that will work going forward.
>
> The current modules in their present incarnation have no issues,
> and the new naming scheme (allow only lower case letters and
> numbers, and disallow underscores) will prevent new ones from
> having name space clashes.
>
> There was one +1 on this from Gerhard.
>
> Any other objections?
>
> On 5/16/06, Khalid B <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>
>> Can the simple solution be forbidding module names to have under
>> scores in them? So, taxonomy_menu becomes taxonomymenu
>> (CamelCaseSucks).
>>
>> For new modules, it is easy to enforce (e.g. project/cvslog  module
>> can refuse to add it),  but for existing ones, work is needed.
>>
>
>
>


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