On Sat Oct 30 2010 Uwe Brauer wrote: > > and use more meaningful names. > > This, in my opinion, is a very bad idea. > Taste is subjective and once names are chosen they become a > convention. To break backward compatibility deliberately has > no benefit I can think off.
I was just looking at these things once more, and I think that Johnny's original request provides a good example for why I did these changes. Johnny asked about the variable bbdb-add-mails in BBDB 3.XX. In BBDB 2.XX this was called bbdb-always-add-addresses. Why was the old name very confusing? Because the core functions of BBDB called email addresses "net", while "address" was used for snail mail addresses. Yet (later?) add-ons to BBDB 2.XX also used "mail", "email" and "address" for this purpose. In BBDB 3.XX I tried to use consistently "address" for snail mail addresses and "mail" for email addresses. Cheers, Roland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
