[development] when we run out of characters

Khalid B kb at 2bits.com
Wed May 17 16:13:23 UTC 2006


I mean that instead of:

module_name

It will just be:

modulename

Then the underscore will be a hook separator.

modulename_hook1

That is it.

On 5/17/06, sime <info at urbits.com> wrote:
> 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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