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Working on the ZaoBao tutorial, and trying to explain the difference
between a Block's blockName and its itsName, I'm starting to wonder:
why do we have both? I came up with two reasons: - easy referencing/lookup of blocks by name. But schema.ns() provides easy access to any well-known object by name. - event dispatching - to dispatch to an event with a given name. But again, schema.ns provides easy access.. and besides I think in many cases I think we'd be better off just using SendToBlockByReference and just directly referencing the block. Thoughts? I can see how blockName was useful at one point, but I think now its purpose has been superceded by schema.ns(). Alec |
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