From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/63691 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Module Namespaces Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:52:28 +0100 Message-ID: <4CE5A01C.6060505@wxs.nl> References: <5C7A72C2-8353-4957-96B4-B37673516F14@gmail.com> <4CE59E80.4030307@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1290117173 16130 80.91.229.12 (18 Nov 2010 21:52:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:52:53 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Nov 18 22:52:47 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PJCPJ-0007Go-6n for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:52:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D169CA871; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:52:40 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id rmAQeNFOFiiy; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:52:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 864A0CA85A; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:52:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E7BDCA85A for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:52:36 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id T+VkewLYHXZb for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:52:34 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (filter1-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.69]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 197C6CA84C for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:52:34 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id oAILqXI2026574 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:52:33 +0100 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.101; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.101] (unverified [10.100.1.101]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 4.3g4) with ESMTP id 15203-1713362 for multiple; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:48:35 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.6 ThunderBrowse/3.3.2 In-Reply-To: X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=11; city=Den Haag; latitude=52.0833; longitude=4.3000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.0833,4.3000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 06DwJQxFC - a423c838e039 - 20101118 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.69 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:63691 Archived-At: On 18-11-2010 10:48, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, Hans Hagen wrote: > >> On 18-11-2010 10:19, luigi scarso wrote: >>> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Aditya Mahajan >>> wrote: >>>> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: >>>> >>>>> (there is no need to use capitals). >>>> >>>> Thanks. Old habits die hard. >>> Camel case is not bad at all --- it's a matter of points of view >> >> best use lowercase systematically >> >> then users can use uppercase or a mix and not clash with built in names > > As a module writer, it is not always clear whether you should follow the > conventions for a user (use upper or mixed case to avoid clash) or a > developer (use lowercase systematically). sure, but then you can use prefixes: \@@fancybreakhelper and so (there was a time that one would save on characters in order not to overflow string space but nowadays it's no problem) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________