Re: Is Smart Eiffel ready for large-scale application ? (Modula 3 and Eiffel verbosity and libraries)

In <[email protected]>, Dominique Colnet <[email protected]> typed:
> > they prevent seeing more contents at once. In other words: less is more!
> But, just forget your code for about 6 months (i.e. take some very long
> vacations ;-)... and the long name `get_new_iterator_on_keys' will be
> better than the short hand I think.

I don't. I've used languages where the method is "keys", and have no
trouble remembering it. Then again, it's in a standard data structure
of the language, so it's not dependent on the program.

Longer names are more usefull for application-specific methods, but
even then it behooves one to follow the library. If the library calls
the method that returns an iterator on the keys of a mapping "keys",
then your application-specific object that does the same should be
called "keys", not "get_new_iterator_on_keys". Of course, the converse
is also true.

	<mike

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