Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-03 Thread Burak Serdar
On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 4:25 PM Robert Engels wrote: > > Btw, I am working on some issues/proposals/tools that I think will help the > situation - not just complaining. I'd like to hear more about what you're planning to do. > > > On Dec 3, 2018, at 5:19 PM, Robert Engels wrote: > > > > Probabl

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-03 Thread Robert Engels
Btw, I am working on some issues/proposals/tools that I think will help the situation - not just complaining. > On Dec 3, 2018, at 5:19 PM, Robert Engels wrote: > > Probably another thread unto itself, and some of the issues have already been > corrected like the addition of modules. > > On

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-03 Thread Robert Engels
Probably another thread unto itself, and some of the issues have already been corrected like the addition of modules. One of the biggest is dynamic code changes at runtime, while debugging, a lot of web apis, etc. Often there’s a lot of steps to get to X in an enterprise app. It’s a much slow

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-03 Thread Burak Serdar
On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 11:09 PM Robert Engels wrote: > > I agree that is an important consideration, but it seems less important if > the packages are small and focused. > > I think an important point to consider is that there are systems apps, and > enterprise apps. These rules seem well suited

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-03 Thread Robert Engels
I don’t think that’s an issue. You only have references to both Employee in the integration code, and that should probably always use fully qualified names - if I’m understanding your concerns, but I’m not sure I am. > On Dec 3, 2018, at 10:23 AM, Bakul Shah wrote: > > > >> On Dec 3, 2018,

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-03 Thread Tristan Colgate
Whilst not exaclty the peek of modern tooling, grep is one method of checking where and how your package is used. That's a lot clearer without dot imports. I've never used a dot import, and don't think I have seen one in the wild. Allowing dot imports feels like a bit of a wart (but one that is e

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-03 Thread Bakul Shah
> On Dec 3, 2018, at 8:08 AM, Robert Engels wrote: > > I understand that, and when working in code that uses both types, which is > probably limited, you fully qualify. This is pretty standard stuff in the > enterprise world, as well architected solutions are segmented, so you only > encoun

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-03 Thread Robert Engels
Anyway, thanks all for the input. I am continuing to review other large code based for real world examples for what works and what doesn’t and having the input of the community makes understanding the conventions easier. > On Dec 3, 2018, at 10:08 AM, Robert Engels wrote: > > I understand tha

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-03 Thread Robert Engels
I understand that, and when working in code that uses both types, which is probably limited, you fully qualify. This is pretty standard stuff in the enterprise world, as well architected solutions are segmented, so you only encounter this problem at the integration points, and that code is quali

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-03 Thread Bakul Shah
On Dec 3, 2018, at 6:52 AM, Robert Engels wrote: > > I think people are misunderstanding my equal footing need. I don’t mean for > all applications, I mean for a application. > > Here’s another example. You have a enterprise payroll application. You have a > model package. You have model.Empl

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-03 Thread roger peppe
On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 at 14:52, Robert Engels wrote: > I think people are misunderstanding my equal footing need. I don’t mean > for all applications, I mean for a application. > > Here’s another example. You have a enterprise payroll application. You > have a model package. You have model.Employee

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-03 Thread Robert Engels
I thought the main was special cased, since the app band is based on the directory not the package. > On Dec 3, 2018, at 3:04 AM, roger peppe wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 at 07:40, robert engels wrote: > > Roger, > > > > I experimented with the import name (rather than dot import), and cam

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-03 Thread Robert Engels
I think people are misunderstanding my equal footing need. I don’t mean for all applications, I mean for a application. Here’s another example. You have a enterprise payroll application. You have a model package. You have model.Employee. Having to use model.Employee throughout the application

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-03 Thread Bakul Shah
On Dec 2, 2018, at 11:39 PM, robert engels wrote: > > what I’m really trying to convey is that “Fixed” is a top-level type, on > equal footing with ‘string’. a) it is *not* on equal footing with the built in types of Go. b) it can't be, as "Fixed" by itself not well defined. The Fixed type i

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-03 Thread Jan Mercl
On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 10:05 AM roger peppe wrote: > That said, you could do: > > type fixed = fixed.Fixed FTR: That's invalid code, it redeclares 'fixed'. (Go forbids the same identifier to live in package scope and file scope.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the G

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-03 Thread roger peppe
On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 at 07:40, robert engels wrote: > Roger, > > I experimented with the import name (rather than dot import), and came up with this: > > type Order struct { >sync.RWMutex >Instrument >Id OrderID >ExchangeId string >Price n.Fixed >Side >Quanti

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-02 Thread robert engels
Roger, I experimented with the import name (rather than dot import), and came up with this: type Order struct { sync.RWMutex Instrument Id OrderID ExchangeId string Price n.Fixed Side Quantity n.Fixed Remaining n.Fixed OrderType OrderState RejectR

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-02 Thread Robert Engels
I agree that is an important consideration, but it seems less important if the packages are small and focused. I think an important point to consider is that there are systems apps, and enterprise apps. These rules seem well suited to systems apps, but maybe not so well suited to business ente

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-02 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 7:25 PM Robert Engels wrote: > > The way to fix it though it just to use dot imports, and encourage it! The > only time dot imports don’t work is when there isn’t package stutter. Seems > like a no brainer and you get the best of both worlds. Go programs that do not use d

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-02 Thread roger peppe
> Do you really think you are losing information if this becomes: > > func matches(p Policy, a authorizer.Attributes) bool { >From my point of view, yes it makes a big difference if I see a package-qualified identifier, because I know that it's invoking some other package's abstraction. I am very

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-02 Thread 'Niko Schwarz' via golang-nuts
For what it's worth, in all this time, context.Context still looks clumsy to me and I wish you'd picked context.Ctx :) My certainty level here is high, the intensity level is low. It's like: I'm pretty sure I like the red backpack better than the black one. But the black one is fine :) Niko O

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-02 Thread Robert Engels
If can go as far as List list = sort(reverse(somelist)) I understand the import problem is not an issue when writing a package, but it’s a big issue when the use of the package is extensive, like domain types. It’s just cumbersome noise at that point, and a solution is needed IMO. > On Dec 2,

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-02 Thread Dan Kortschak
That's pretty different to a dot import in Go. If the imports below gave you  List list = singletonList(someobject) Then they would be comparable - the static imports are more comparable to Go's dot imports, but then in your next post you say that they're mainly used for constants, "although for

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-01 Thread Ian Denhardt
Quoting robert engels (2018-12-02 01:55:17) > added to Go, but I am not sure if the package has a few related types > (which it should IMO) it is any better than > > import . “package” This also exposes stand-alone functions, constants etc. which doesn't come up in Java. I think the stutter real

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-01 Thread Sanjay
In both Java and C++ (statically compiled languages), Google's style guides prohibit "wildcard"-style imports of an entire library: https://google.github.io/styleguide/javaguide.html#s3.3.1-wildcard-imports https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html#Namespaces I believe the restriction is

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-01 Thread Ian Denhardt
Quoting robert engels (2018-12-02 01:43:45) > import * + type inference + dynamic language = hell Can't have type inference without types, so it's just the dynamic bit, but I basically agree -- combined with the fact that you can do nonsense black magic with the import machinery at runtime in Py

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-01 Thread robert engels
I was thinking the similarly, which is why I thought about the List case. In Java, however you get there, it is just referred to as List In Go, it is going to be list.List And in a competing implementation it is going to be container.List or whatever package the author came up with. That’s a b

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-01 Thread robert engels
I think it is especially problematic for python because: import * + type inference + dynamic language = hell in my book. > On Dec 2, 2018, at 12:26 AM, Ian Denhardt wrote: > > Quoting robert engels (2018-12-02 00:59:31) > >> Granted, their package structure seems poor in my opinion, but yo

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-01 Thread Ian Denhardt
Based on your explanation, my original understanding of the semantics were correct. This: > import java.util.Collections; ..is not a dot import -- a dot import makes visible every (exported) identifier in the package. This just exposes the one identifier -- Collections. I don't have a problem wi

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-01 Thread Ian Denhardt
Quoting robert engels (2018-12-02 00:59:31) >Granted, their package structure seems poor in my opinion, but you >can't talk bad about k8s. Of course you don't lose anything by getting rid of the package names if the package structure doesn't make any sense in the first place. >And pr

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-01 Thread robert engels
And when reading through code no Java developer goes, hmmm I wonder what a List is - since List in idiomatic use is the List interface from java.util.List. Could it be another List type, possibly the java.awt.List, but that’s only used in awt related code, and if it’s truly a different List type

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-01 Thread robert engels
The ‘static import’ allows you to refer to things like this: import static java.util.Collections.sort; public class ScratchTest { public static void main(String[] args) { java.util.List list = sort(java.util.Collections.singletonList(new Object()); } } but typically, the static

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-01 Thread robert engels
The .* doesn’t mean what you think it does - that just means all of the classes in the package. It is no different than listing them each. When you use import java.util.Collections; import java.util.List; You are actually doing a dot import, so you can in the code just refer to it as so List

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-01 Thread robert engels
As some supporting evidence, here is a method signature in k8s: func matches(p abac.Policy, a authorizer.Attributes) bool { The interesting aspect is that this method is in package abac, except it is in pkg/auth/authorizer/abac and the one being used in the method pkg/apis/abac Do you really

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-01 Thread Ian Denhardt
Quoting Robert Engels (2018-12-02 00:19:40) > I know everyone hates it when I reference java but it has had dot > importsat the package level since day one. I won’t repeat why that > matters. It’s never been a problem. > > I don’t think I ever heard someone complain it was a problem in > working in

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-01 Thread Robert Engels
I know everyone hates it when I reference java but it has had dot imports at the package level since day one. I won’t repeat why that matters. It’s never been a problem. I don’t think I ever heard someone complain it was a problem in working in Java, why is it such a problem in Go? I’m suspecti

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-01 Thread Ian Denhardt
Quoting Robert Engels (2018-12-01 22:25:06) > The way to fix it though it just to use dot imports, and encourage it! > The only time dot imports don't work is when there isn't package > stutter. Seems like a no brainer and you get the best of both worlds. My experience in every language I've work

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-01 Thread Bakul Shah
I would've probably chosen context.State or context.Type; but to be frank "Context" always seemed a bit too generic to me. Looking at its definition it seems like something to carry a bunch of random stuff. Sort of like a knapsack! Naming is not easy. As usual Dijkstra has something interesting to

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-01 Thread Robert Engels
I think context.Context is fine, it’s weird though I’ll admit. The way to fix it though it just to use dot imports, and encourage it! The only time dot imports don’t work is when there isn’t package stutter. Seems like a no brainer and you get the best of both worlds. You have similar problem

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-01 Thread Sameer Ajmani
For what it's worth, we considered various ways to shorten context.Context before releasing it as open source. The obvious choice would be context.C, but I was concerned this would encourage people to name their context variables c, which conflicts with the common short name for channel variables.

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-01 Thread Robert Engels
I agree. You need to understand the expected usage patterns (and possibly other external and internal constraints) before you can claim that any design “needs change”. > On Dec 1, 2018, at 12:18 PM, Bakul Shah wrote: > > Reducing stutter.Stutter is a good thing. But coming up with meaningful

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-01 Thread Bakul Shah
Reducing stutter.Stutter is a good thing. But coming up with meaningful names ThatDontTakeHalfALineAndReduceCodeDensity is often quite hard (but ultimately rewarding as it forces you to think more clearly). And languages and practices evolve as people gain more experience so early practices should

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-01 Thread Robert Engels
I can understand that and it seems reasonable but if I’m writing a new Ring “class” and it supports both a standard and a concurrent version, I’m probably not going to create two packages. I would create one package named ring and have NewRing and NewSyncRing. Which is what I and I think you are

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-01 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 9:53 AM Robert Engels wrote: > > That was my point. The earliest practitioners and language designers used the > construct extensively but now others claim it is not the way. I find it hard > to believe that in testing the original Go design the creators didn’t think > ab

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-01 Thread Robert Engels
That was my point. The earliest practitioners and language designers used the construct extensively but now others claim it is not the way. I find it hard to believe that in testing the original Go design the creators didn’t think about this - which means they decided it was fine. So why the cha

Re: [go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-01 Thread Tristan Colgate
In the cases of time and context, the stutters appear in a primary type that is important to the package, but rarely appears directly in normal API usage. E.g., time.Now(), context.Background(). Stutter is to be avoided. The package name can provide context. But stutter is preferred to, e.g. ti

[go-nuts] Package Stutter

2018-12-01 Thread Robert Engels
In another thread, it has been brought up that things like time.Time are no good. But this format is pervasive. Even newer packages like context.Context. It seems to have been this way for a long time. It there some reasoned paper on why this is now so frowned upon? -- You received this messa