Re: [Modeling-users] ModelMasons refactored

[Mario R. <ma...@ru...>]

On lundi, avr 21, 2003, at 15:02 Europe/Amsterdam, Jerome Kerdreux 
wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 02:51:46PM +0200, Sebastien Bigaret wrote:
>
>> Mario wrote:
>>> Just a minor comment, w.r.t. naming of the generated files/classes.
>>> I feel that:
>>>
>>> a) "Base" is probably not the best name extension to use, as it has
>>> a well-known generic meaning, and in addition it says nothing about
>>> the "volatility" of these generated files/classes. Better names would
>>> be something like "Auto" or "Gen" or "mdl" or "pom" or "morfy" ...
>>
>> Reasonable too. What about 'Autogen'? Since we're going this way I 
>> guess
>> that models (xml/py) should be moved to that directory too, so that
>> everything that is overwritten when generating the code clearly falls 
>> in
>> the dedicated directory.
>
> Hum I want to maintain a reference to the fact that this came from the
> modeling. Cause i use some ORB here and it generate a lot of code too
> so 'Autogen' hurt me a little . (same in glade too)
> I prefer the previous one 'Mdl' or something else.

Don't understand. Why does AutoGen give you a problem and Base
does not, as far as other 3rd party generated code goes ?


>> Mario> b) It is unnecessarily repeated -- what is the point of naming
>> Mario> all the classes in the "Base" sub-package also with "Base"?
>> Mario> Wouldn't it be more convenient to name only the sub-package? 
>> E.g.
>>        [...]
>>
>> No problem; since we forget about 'Base' as a package it's a nonsense 
>> to
>> keep it here.
>
>
> Hum i'm not really clear about this, but i think this can generated
> namespace colision . mainly in the 'working' module

Well, it is true if you import it directly into the local namespace.
However, i fell it is a lot of clutter to keep repeating the prefix (or 
postfix)
for each file. What is the point of having a namespace if not to avoid
having to do such things?

Besides, instead of:

import AutoGen
class Folder(AutoGen.Folder):
     ...

no-one will ever stop you from doing:

from AutoGen import Folder as FolderBase
class Folder(FolderBase):
     ...

Except yourself, of course ;)

Cheers, mario