Class naming guide

Hi all,

I noticed that since there is no `import' statement in Pharo, class
names can easily conflict.  What is the common naming strategy that you
people use to avoid that?

TIA,

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Bahman Movaqar  (http://BahmanM.com)
ERP Evaluation, Implementation, Deployment Consultant

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Bahman Movaqar <[hidden email]> wrote:
> I noticed that since there is no `import' statement in Pharo, class
> names can easily conflict.  What is the common naming strategy that you
> people use to avoid that?


the first two letters are often an indication of the package. E.g.,
PRPage for a Page class in the Pier package, ZnEasy for the Easy class
in the Zinc package...

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On 2013-05-28 12:07, Damien Cassou wrote:
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Bahman Movaqar <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> I noticed that since there is no `import' statement in Pharo, class
>> names can easily conflict.  What is the common naming strategy that you
>> people use to avoid that?
>
>
> the first two letters are often an indication of the package. E.g.,
> PRPage for a Page class in the Pier package, ZnEasy for the Easy class
> in the Zinc package...

Thanks.  I'll follow that convention.

BTW I assume there is no central place to check if the two letter
combination has already been taken or not, right?

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Bahman Movaqar  (http://BahmanM.com)
ERP Evaluation, Implementation, Deployment Consultant

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Bahman Movaqar <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Thanks.  I'll follow that convention.
>
> BTW I assume there is no central place to check if the two letter
> combination has already been taken or not, right?


nope. But you can ask the mailing list if you have a doubt. Don't
worry too much about that. It's easy to change all the class names
later if you see a conflict.

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Damien Cassou
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"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without
losing enthusiasm."
Winston Churchill

On 2013-05-28 13:07, Damien Cassou wrote:
Alright then.  Thanks.

I already started coding :-)  http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~Bahman/Simin


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Bahman Movaqar  (http://BahmanM.com)
ERP Evaluation, Implementation, Deployment Consultant

I am using a 3 letter prefix for my own projects. It works well too.

Lack of imports is not that bad. Cleaner code most of time.

Phil
Pharo Consortium Member