Re: [picocontainer-dev] renames ..

"Nick Sieger" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.picocontainer.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 7/25/07, Paul Hammant <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I really like the NLP style naming thats been introduced with Pico2.
>
> I'd like to take it a stage further .....
>
>    CachingBehaviorFactory becomes Caching
>    CachingBehavior becomes Cached
>
>    ImplementationHidingBehaviorFactory becomes ImplementationHiding
>    ImplementationHidingBehavior becomes HiddenImplementation
>
>    PoolingBehaviorFactory becomes Pooling
>    PoolingBehavior becomes Pooled
>
>
>    etc.
>
> Rationale?
>
> All the BehaviorFactory implementations had the work 'ing' before
> BehaviorFactory.
>
> The simple 'ed' and 'ing' naming is quite purposeful, and may allow
> us to kill off the 'Behaviors' class
>
> Thoughts?


For Java code, it's practically revolutionary and very-un-Java-like.  Makes
me think of

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html

I like it.

/Nick
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