RE: New PoCo Guidelines

2004-08-13 Thread Erick Calder
I propose a common nomenclature. I never like reverse Hungarian notation and variants because invariably you end up with names that don't describe the datatype well, or you end up with long names, and I hate long names. I think names should be functional: state describes the thing without

Re: New PoCo Guidelines

2004-08-13 Thread sungo
On (08/06 01:50), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me through my vote in for POEx. Agreed. i like POEx a lot. makes it very clear what is in core and what is not. -- sungo http://eekeek.org

Re: New PoCo Guidelines

2004-08-13 Thread sungo
On (08/06 01:57), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ZipEvent=$mutter Now the point I've been raising for several years : say I want the event posted to another session, how do I specify that? I propose a common nomenclature. FooState : a subroutine reference. the contents of the state to be

Re: New PoCo Guidelines

2004-08-13 Thread David Davis
I like POEx also. Philip: If you wanted to get a postback for a certain session/event you could do: ZipEvent = $kernel-ID_id_to_session($session_id)-postback('zip_event',@event_args), pretty ugly and would cause an error for a session that didn't exist I would like to suggest we use

RE: New PoCo Guidelines

2004-08-13 Thread Erick Calder
Perhaps I'm too sentimental but I prefer names that are pronounceable. POEx is pretty pronounceable: POE-ex POEx I like the brevity of this. my issue however, is that the implication is that modules in that namespace are extensions... and I don't perceive components as extensions... an

Re: New PoCo Guidelines

2004-08-13 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 07:59:03 -0600 Wiggins d Anconia wrote: +-- | I'll add another. I think at the very least POE (with the 'E') needs to | stay intact. I know the chatting convention has been to use 'PoCo', | but to keep the two related I think the full 'POE' spelling

Re: New PoCo Guidelines

2004-08-13 Thread Nick Williams
Chris Fedde wrote: On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 07:59:03 -0600 Wiggins d Anconia wrote: +-- | I'll add another. I think at the very least POE (with the 'E') needs to | stay intact. I know the chatting convention has been to use 'PoCo', | but to keep the two related I think the full

Re: New PoCo Guidelines

2004-08-13 Thread Rocco Caputo
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:17:59PM -0700, Erick Calder wrote: Perhaps I'm too sentimental but I prefer names that are pronounceable. POEx is pretty pronounceable: POE-ex POEx I like the brevity of this. my issue however, is that the implication is that modules in that namespace are