[Lift] Re: What's the deal with class(es) in API named with one character?

2009-11-02 Thread Wilson MacGyver

ah, I was always curious what S stood for.

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:33 PM, David Pollak
 wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Vesa  wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I feel that having classes with names like S wastes my very limited
>> brain ram while reading or writing lift applications. Why not to use
>> more describing but longer names? Not wasting bytes on these difficult
>> economic times? This might be unfair rant as I didn't find any others,
>> but this damn S keeps popping up a lot :D
>
> S == Stateful
>
> Back when I started doing Lift, there were no IDEs, no code completion, and
> access to the stateful parts of Lift was common, so I called this S.
>
> If you don't like it:
>
> import net.liftweb.http.{S => SomethingLongerThanS}
>
>>
>> ps. Great framework!
>>
>> - Vesa
>>
>
>
>
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[Lift] Re: What's the deal with class(es) in API named with one character?

2009-11-02 Thread David Pollak
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Vesa  wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I feel that having classes with names like S wastes my very limited
> brain ram while reading or writing lift applications. Why not to use
> more describing but longer names? Not wasting bytes on these difficult
> economic times? This might be unfair rant as I didn't find any others,
> but this damn S keeps popping up a lot :D
>

S == Stateful

Back when I started doing Lift, there were no IDEs, no code completion, and
access to the stateful parts of Lift was common, so I called this S.

If you don't like it:

import net.liftweb.http.{S => SomethingLongerThanS}


>
> ps. Great framework!
>
> - Vesa
> >
>


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