In the case of factories, I think what really matters is that the Widget names match exactly between WidgetFactory and Widget, in this case, UUID and UUIDFactory or Uuid and UuidFactory. I guess we can agree to disagree since a compromise does not seem possible :-(
Gary > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 05:05 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [uid] Uuid > > I can understand this POV, but I favour FTPUNIXXMLThing. In our example > here, UUIDFactory just seems better than UuidFactory to me. > > Stephen > > > from: __matthewHawthorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Gary Gregory wrote: > > > I prefer treating acronyms as words (Uuid), which avoids IMO silly and > > > *unreadable* names like FTPUNIXXMLThing in favor or FtpUnixXmlThing. > > > > > > Gary > > > > > > I agree. Once you have a class with more than 1 acronym in the name, > > things get out of hand. I feel that this is a nice consistent approach > > to producing readable names. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]