I really wish our top-level namespace was "moz", rather than "mozilla".
Nick On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Eric Rahm <er...@mozilla.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Jonathan Kew <jfkth...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Wouldn't it be more "modern Gecko-ish", though, to drop the "ns" prefix, > > and perhaps put Auto[C]String into the mozilla namespace? > > > > > As Nick said, renaming all the things is a job for another day :) > > Coincidentally I have some pending changes that affect the internal naming > of all of our strings. Externally (outside of xpcom/string) there will be > no discernible change but I *could* move everything to the mozilla > namespace and drop the 'ns' prefix. We could then gradually migrate to the > new naming scheme externally. I think we'd eventually want to move the > include path to 'mozilla/String.h' as well if we went this route, in the > interim we could just have stubs that redirect to the mozilla path. > > I'm not sure how much backing that has -- we'd be going from nsString => > String which is pretty close to std::string -- it would be interesting to > get some feedback. > > -e > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
