-- Andreas Möller <[email protected]> wrote
(on Tuesday, 13 November 2012, 10:38 AM +0100):
> may I ask why instances of EventManager are referred to as events,
> rather than eventManager?
If you're talking about the _protected_ property, or the fact that many
setEventManager() implementations use "$events" as the name of the
EventManager property, or even that many examples will use constructs
like "$events = $object->getEventManager();" it's simply because:
a) it's shorter to type
b) it has a semantic affinity to how other languages (esp. JavaScript)
refer to event collections/managers.
In JavaScript, you typically work with an "events" collection, and
attach/trigger from that; we chose terminology that should be familiar
to those familiar with that paradigm (which will be a majority of web
developers).
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