Re: Naming schemes

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:47:49AM +0100, Martin Jansen wrote: > Do you really think, that the naming convention is the only > problem, people have with the coding standards? I'm afraid > that if we now drop the naming conventions, people will come > up and will ask us to drop other things of the coding standards. No, I'm not being naive. Still, it's the only thing that really doesn't matter when you consider basic code quality. The other point that can probably get dropped is the whole "tabs v. spaces" nonsense. I just looked at how CPAN accepts contributions[1], and they don't appear to have any standards requirements. They just ask contributers to be careful with their use of namespace. I think the namespace system is kind of clever, actually. If someone already has a module with the "best" namespace for a given function (e.g. Log::Syslog), others are more likely to contribute fixes / features to that existing module instead of submitted entirely new module that do the same thing (which appears to happen less frequently than one would think). Speaking of other projects, here are some Python references of general use to PEAR architects: http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0241.html http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0243.html [1] http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_contribute_modules -- Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu) . Information Technology (2001) http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/ : Computer Science House Member