questions on PhanTango 'merger' (was Merging Tangobos into Tango) - long-term vision

[Sean Kelly]

Chad J wrote:
> Christopher Wright wrote:
>> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>> Anders Bergh wrote:
>>>> On 10/11/07, Lars Ivar Igesund <larsivar at igesund.net> wrote:
>>>>> How on earth is
>>>>>
>>>>> Cout("somestring"); more "complex" than writef (write actually)?
>>>>
>>>> Upper-case "C"...
>>>
>>> I don't like that either :-)  I think it's an artifact of earlier 
>>> design iterations.
>>
>> Then you could add "alias Cout cout", I guess. Anything preventing that?
> 
> afaik, you can't import aliases.  So that alias would only apply to the 
> file it's in, not to the user file importing it.
> 
> You could just ...rename it... ;)
> 
> I would actually appreciate a library willing to modify and deprecate 
> stuff to get rid of old idiosyncrasies.

Kris explained this one to me.  Global singletons are declared in 
CamelCase to both identify them and to reduce the chance of collisions 
with local variables.  But I don't like that it's inconsistent with 
other variable declarations and I'm not sure name collisions would be an 
issue anyway.  So YMMV.  As an aside though, if the CamelCase convention 
were dropped, we may need a different name for Stdout, since it would 
collide with the C symbol of the same name.


Sean