On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Bryan Davis <bd...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Chris initially chose `MWOAuth` but later amended to use > `MediaWiki\Extensions\OAuth` at my suggestion. > > [...] > I suggested MediaWiki\Extensions\OAuth because it seems like the most > natural naming to me. +2. Abbreviations are mostly annoying and not suited for class (or namespace) names. There's always the risk someone else already picked your two or three-letter abbreviation, which would eventually cause some issues for everyone involved, whereas there's only one "MediaWiki" out there. > The loudest argument I've heard here (and elsewhere) about using > namespaces like MediaWiki\Extensions\OAuth is that there are too many > characters to type. That could then be used as an argument against the supermajority of our well-estabilished coding conventions. Why call a variable $enableEditing when $e (or $ee) requires far less typing? Let's just name variables from $a to $z and once we run out of valid single-letter vars, let's just use $aa, $bb, and so on, because it requires far less typing! (And produces far more messy and unreadable code. Oops!) > you typically type a fully qualified class name > once per file at most, and any reasonable editor can be configured to > have tab completion and/or macro expansion for commonly typed strings. Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V have been a thing for quite a while, no? Regards, -- Jack Phoenix MediaWiki developer _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
