On September 8, 2009, you wrote: > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Aaron J. Seigo<[email protected]> wrote: > > On September 7, 2009, Matthias Clasen wrote: > >> Why do you think properties should be treated like members ? This change > >> would apply new restriction to property names that have the potential to > >> render a lot of existing interfaces noncompliant, for very little gain. > > > > right now we have an inconsistency between one type of item available in > > an interface compared to all the rest. service names, methods, signals > > all have these restrictions on them and properties stand out as odd > > ducks. consistency is a good trait. > > It makes as much sense, as forcing Java (or C++ or Python or whatever) > to use same case and format for class names, constants, functions, > methods, properties, namespaces and local variables. ;)
we're talking about the allowed character set, not case or stylistic format. it's a slightly different matter, as the former says which characters are legal and the latter suggest how to use those characters. (to state the obvious) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks
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