Comments on: Confounding MXML Namespaces

By: elena

elena — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:40:43 +0000

I like better dots.

@Matthew: you seem like a cocky rocket-scientist-wannabe. There are definitely better ways to say things.

peace out

By: quinthar

quinthar — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:37:16 +0000

Yikes, was that intended to be funny or are you truly as mean-spirited as the comment sounds? As for my background, it’s primarily in C++ (which has its own, even weirder namespaces) so Java-style namespace management doesn’t come naturally to me.

But regardless, I still don’t see why languages that mirror namespaces and directory structures don’t just use the same notation for both. I’m fine with the lack of header files, and I’m fine with each file corresponding to a single class with the same name as the file itself. Those are good ideas. But I think a slash notation:

import subdir/MyClass;
import otherdir/*;

Is intuitively more obvious than

import subdir.MyClass;
import otherdir.*;

And before replying, please take a Tylenol and try to respond in a nicer tone. Everyone’s got an opinion on the matter.

By: Matthew Scott

Matthew Scott — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 05:35:58 +0000

Judging by your last sentence of this post, you must be a freakin designer and never have programmed before or you might understand the dot notation for specifying name spaces.

Like I have always said, without designers IB Profen and Tylenol couldn’t stay in business with all of us programmers not having a use for it anymore.