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Stephan Richter wrote: > On Tuesday 05 September 2006 08:26, Jim Fulton wrote: >> I think in the future, we should resist minor api tweaks just to >> improve spelling slightly. > > I disagree, if the API violates the style guide. The point of the style guide > is that we have uniform naming. For example, formlib violates the style guide > completely. Unfortunately I did not look closer at it before the inclusion in > the core, otherwise I would have strongly argued against it until those > violations were fixed. > > I cannot remember things well. So uniform naming is very important to me, > because it allows me to remember less. Every time I am starting to write UI > code, I have to think: "Okay. I am going to use formlib. Crap, it is > different than the rest. I need to use underscores. Okay." At the end of the > day, I am ending up opening form.py to look up things; yes, I have not read > the README yet. I agree on the goal, I don't agree on the means. Once we decide it's stable, it's stable, even if there's a spelling error in it. We have to apply more careful development before calling it stable then. Christian - -- gocept gmbh & co. kg - forsterstraße 29 - 06112 halle/saale - germany www.gocept.com - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - phone +49 345 122 9889 7 - fax +49 345 122 9889 1 - zope and plone consulting and development -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE/XkvdUt9X/gknwIRAo4bAKC7xbQQnYmDmbzcSCw86C5uIssEbQCdFOtv PTz72v/6zg8QNFuAL+N1Oj8= =ArP7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Zope3-dev mailing list [email protected] Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
