Namespacing in kdevelop/lib

[Andras Mantia]

On Wednesday 19 July 2006 10:36, Florian Hackenberger wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 July 2006 02:07, Adam Treat wrote:
> > My vote is KDev ...
> > We already name all of the libs libkdev* and all of the files are
> > currently kdev* (although this is _highly_ annoying) so why not the
> > namespace too?
>
> What about combining the two suggestions (KDev and KDevelopPlatform)
> into KDevPlatform, which ist a bit shorter that KDevelopPlatform, but
> still informative?

Personally I'm against namespacing KDevelop libraries. Sure, it looks 
nicer if you write KDevelop::Plugin instead of KDevPlugin, but it is 
long, so most probably everyone will write "using namespace KDevelop" 
and just use "Plugin" later. From this point if you mix several 
namespaces, it will be hard for a reader to find what kind of Plugin we 
are talking here. Even worser, there will be a KDevelop::Document and a 
KTextEditor::Document, and it is very common in KDevelop to use 
KTextEditor classes.
For forward declarations I find

namespace KDevelop {
class Document;
} 

uglier than

class KDevDocument;


But if you anyway want to namespace it, call simply KDevelop. Calling it 
"KDev" doesn't bring any extra readability (even now all classes start 
that way), KDevPlatform is also a cryptic name, KDevelopPlatform might 
be good, but it is long.

Andras
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