I agree with you about the capitalization and have, in later code I've written, begun to use the convention you use. I believe it's something of a standard, in fact. I wish I had used it when I first created these classes, but it's probably not worth breaking client code at this point to make this improvement.
On Monday 29 December 2003 11:28 pm, Gary Gregory wrote: > Hi, > > Looking at this table I cannot help but mention a naming convention we use > in our product code, which is to use the WordCapitalization rule for > acronyms in class names, which IMO, makes class names actually readable. > For example: > > UnixFTPEntryParser -> UnixFtpEntryParser > NTFTPEntryParser -> NtFtpEntryParser > OS2FTPEntryParser -> Os2FtpEntryParser > EnterpriseUnixFTPEntryParser -> EnterpriseUnixFtpEntryParser > VMSFTPEntryParser -> VmsFtpEntryParser > > The funny thing (to me ;-) is that in the table below "Unix" is not "UNIX" > which is not, technically an acronym, I guess since it came from MULTICS > (an acronym ;-P > > Gary > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: steve cohen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 19:18 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [net] FTPClient.getSystemName() > > > > I am beginning to work on trying to map the output of this method to the > > different FTPEntryParser types we have in commons-net. > > > > I know that a default unix FTP server will return "UNIX". > > But can anyone help me fill in this table? > > > > Commons-Net Parser Type that Return Value > > succesfully parses entries from getSystemName() > > ---------------------------- -------------------- > > UnixFTPEntryParser UNIX > > NTFTPEntryParser ? > > OS2FTPEntryParser ? > > EnterpriseUnixFTPEntryParser ? > > VMSFTPEntryParser ? > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
