30 Nov
2005
30 Nov
'05
12:28 a.m.
It's not that big a deal I guess, I just wanted to
raise
the issue since it was a problem for me. I still think description is
far to useful an accessor in "any" problem domain to use it as an
extension on Object, I'd at least call it descriptor, but I'm not
complaining.
Sure, I am open for discussion on any part of the framework. I see
that we should try to reduce conflicts as much as possible and having
extensions in Object naturally lead to such troubles (unless we have
something like class-boxes).
I think #descriptor would be a nice name as well, but I am not sure
if it is worth the troubles of a rename: there is already a lot of
existing code built on top of Magritte (at netstyle.ch we are using
Magritte in productive systems since april 2005) and I know software
(have a look at OmniBrowser), that would conflict with #descriptor
but does not with #description ... ;-)
Lukas
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Lukas Renggli
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