Re: widgets plan proposal

David Crawshaw <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.xwt.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 12:10  AM, Charles Goodwin wrote:
> I have to be awkward and prefer xwt.widgets over xwt.widget.

The Java world went through this with their namespaces, and eventually 
settled on no plurals.

> Yes, a directory 'implies' multiple files.  But, the name of the 
> directory
> suggets the contents.

I've probably been reading too much set theory, but directory to me 
implies a set. Unique entities with no natural ordering. As such, 
xwt.widget.* references all the entities in the widget set, whereas 
xwt.widget.scrollpane is a reference to a single entity in the widget 
set.

I would suggest it is just a peculiarity of language that pops up from 
the circles of people we hang around.

d


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