Re: [Wxruby-dev] Naming problem

[Richard Kilmer]

On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 12:33  AM, Kevin Smith wrote:

> Doh!
>
> I have done the "big rename" in the library itself, and am now starting
> to fix all the samples.
>
> Unfortunately, we have a conflict between wxLeft and wxLEFT.
>
> wxLeft is an enumeration specifying the edge for a
> wxIndividualLayoutConstraint.
>
> wxLEFT is an enumeration specifying the label alignment in a wxGrid.
>
> ARGH!!!

Gosh...that just sucks in general...to have to know to use WxLeft vs. 
WxLEFT (in the C++ code).

> I guess my vote would be to make these constants local within their
> respective classes: Wx::Grid::LEFT vs.
> Wx::IndividualLayoutConstraint::LEFT

Well, Ruby will allow you to have Left and LEFT and it treats them as 
different constants...but man...ug.

> Otherwise, it would probably be best to rename both of them, so we 
> would
> have: Wx::LAYOUT_LEFT and Wx::ALIGN_LEFT (and right, bottom, and
> center/centre too).

This makes them more descriptive...which is nice...and it leaves all 
the constants in the Wx namespace.  If just these are "one level 
deeper" its kind of weird.  The documentation would have to capture 
this, but I like these names better.