On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 11:38:10PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 22. Oktober 2006 20:56 schrieb Patrick R. Michaud:
>
> > I strongly disagree. I don't think that a subclass should have to
> > be named as a sub-namespace of its parent class.
>
> Namespace and classes are currently totally orthogonal. You are declaring a
> subclass (not a sub-namespace) with all the implications for naming it.
Okay, I'll rephrase to avoid the classname/namespace confusion(*):
I don't think that a subclass' name should have to include the
names of its parent classes. From your earlier message:
On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 07:10:21PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
> IMHO this should look like this:
>
> .HLL 'pge', ''
> ...
> cl = newclass 'Exp' # ['pge'; 'Exp']
> ...
> .namespace ['Exp'] # ['pge'; 'Exp']
> ...
> scl = subclass 'Exp', ['Exp'; 'Closure'] # ['pge'; 'Exp'; 'Closure']
> ...
It's the ['Exp'; 'Closure'] that bothers me here -- I don't think
that a subclass should have to include the name of its parent in
the class name. It should be:
scl = subclass 'Exp', 'Closure' # ['pge'; 'Closure']
However, writing either this or
scl = subclass 'Exp', ['Closure'] # ['pge'; 'Closure']
gives me the "class Closure already registered" error that
started this thread.
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(*): AFAICT, it's also not true that classnames and namespaces
are "currently totally orthogonal", since the class' methods
have to be placed in a namespace that matches the classname.
So, a class named [ 'Exp'; 'Closure' ] must place its methods
in a [ 'Exp'; 'Closure' ] namespace.
Pm
