Re: Libraries and effiency
Re: Libraries and effiency
- Subject: Re: Libraries and effiency
- From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 04:19:47 -0700
On 2010-08-07, at 08:22:35, email@hidden wrote:
>> As a user, what I'd appreciate is that loader developers consider AppleScript's lack of namespaces and devise their own for handler names. For example, instead of 'import' it would be something like: "AM import …", "KT load library …", or "TB set recursive search for library "…" to …".
> To offer another opinion, as a user, when I see terms like that in a dictionary I quit the application and uninstall.
> Terms in appleScript should be written to be consistent with the English-like syntax. Developers should be wary of terminology conflicts, but polluting the namespace is not the solution.
I think I can only agree with your school-marm-like finger wagging in the case of applications so yes, I should have been more specific.
Otherwise, my suggestions hold. For example can easily realize the lure of using the obvious "import" and "load library" in an OSAX only to discover that developer B has used the same terms in his.
To this effect, I have filed a bug for osaxen to at least have the ability to be addressed something like:
tell osax id "ca.aker.osax.WCHandy"
…
end
so as to eliminate the possibility of terminology conflicts.
Much appreciated if you want to file an enhancement request for namespaces. You can cite: <radr://8265885/> for referencing purposes.
Philip Aker
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