itsName gets turned into something useless when a block gets copied to
the soup, BlockName doesn't, so we should always be using BlockName.
Alec Flett wrote:
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now its purpose has been superceded by schema.ns().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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