[development] $node namespace woes -- can we fix this in D6?

[Derek Wright]

On May 29, 2007, at 6:23 PM, Moshe Weitzman wrote:

> thata the drupal convention, and IMO it works quite well.

undocumented conventions that aren't expressed in the code of core  
are worthless, IMHO.

> Contrib modules are second class citizens and should always prefix  
> their variables, form fields, node elements, etc.  this system  
> works very well,  when you use it.

so, you advocate "luck" as the solution to this problem. ;)  fair  
enough.  however, if core doesn't do this itself, we have to mention  
this in the developer docs, preferably in a few places like the  
doxygen for nodeapi('load'), the drupal coding convetions, etc, etc.   
if that's really the only answer here, i'll volunteer to submit the  
issue to the documentation queue...

thanks,
-derek

p.s. project* was written by core maintainers, and has been doing  
this wrong for over 5+ years.  if we can't trust the core  
maintainer's own contribs to provide best practices for this, who can  
we trust? ;)  hence the need for docs and vastly more awareness of  
this problem by the rest of us 2nd class citizens.