28 Nov
2003
28 Nov
'03
7:52 a.m.
CORRECT VERSION
Hannes Hirzel wrote:
John Brant wrote:
INSTEAD OF
Essentially, the names are backwards to me: instead of
VisitorPluggable, I
prefer PluggableVisitor; instead of VisitorRendererHtml, I prefer
HtmlRenderingVisitor; etc. I believe this was one of Kent's patterns.
Anyway, there are some other classes besides the visitors with the
reversed
class names (e.g., LinkExternal).
Yes the names are backwards but this is probably not
justified.
Yes the names are backwards but this is probably justified.
The more general thing comes first and then the
specific thing.
(noun then adjective).
If I search for 'Visitor' I get the list of visitors to choose from.
So I do not think it is worth the effort of changing the names
to conform to English word order.
Hannes Hirzel