AW: [Xotcl] destroy invoked by object move?

Kristoffer Lawson setok at fishpool.com
Mon Mar 20 22:26:26 CET 2006


On 20 Mar 2006, at 18:41, Scott Gargash wrote:

> xotcl-bounces at alice.wu-wien.ac.at wrote on 03/20/2006 07:21:27 AM:
>
> > Kristoffer Lawson schrieb:
> >
> > > I'm also wondering what the name should be, to make it really  
> clear.
> > > Is [my var] clear enough? or should it be [my normalisedVar]?
> >
> > "my var" is not a good option, "my varname" would be better,
> >
> > furthermore, "my method" is already defined, getting a good name  
> with
> > method seems messy. how about:
>
> There's some semantic relationship between the two accessors, so it  
> would be nice to have some overlap in their names.  How about "my  
> varname" and "my methodname"?
How about, to make it totally obvious, "my varNamespace" and "my  
methodNamespace"? Readability and clarity is generally more important  
in programming than cutting a few keystrokes off and at least that  
would be easy for anyone reading the code to decipher.

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