Import concerns revisited

Regan Heath regan at netwin.co.nz
Sun Jul 9 16:32:45 PDT 2006


On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:30:32 +1000, Derek Parnell <derek at psych.ward> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:43:17 +1000, Regan Heath <regan at netwin.co.nz>  
> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 19:15:29 +0000 (UTC), John Reimer  
>> <John_member at pathlink.com> wrote:
>>> In article <e8rhud$1cca$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Deewiant says...
>>>>
>>>> John Reimer wrote:
>>>>> Also, for selective import, I think using "from" instead of "with"  
>>>>> looks much
>>>>> better.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "from" is a quite common variable name though, so introducing it as a  
>>>> keyword
>>>> would probably break a lot of code.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It is?  I don't see "from" very often.  Seems like an unusual name for  
>>> a
>>> variable.  Saying it will break "a lot" of code seems like an  
>>> exaggeration.
>>
>> You don't write a mail server ;)
>
> I don't use multi-character identifier names that don't have at least  
> one uppercase character. ;)

Ahh.. you'd call it "emailFrom" or "EmailFrom" or similar. :)

Regan



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