Hi Nicholas, On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 11:38 PM, Nicholas Nethercote < n.netherc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I really wish our top-level namespace was "moz", rather than "mozilla". > Can you say why? Is it "just" shorter? Is it more pleasant to s/std/moz/ and vice versa? Nick > > Nick > > On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Eric Rahm <er...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Jonathan Kew <jfkth...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > Wouldn't it be more "modern Gecko-ish", though, to drop the "ns" > prefix, > > > and perhaps put Auto[C]String into the mozilla namespace? > > > > > > > > As Nick said, renaming all the things is a job for another day :) > > > > Coincidentally I have some pending changes that affect the internal > naming > > of all of our strings. Externally (outside of xpcom/string) there will be > > no discernible change but I *could* move everything to the mozilla > > namespace and drop the 'ns' prefix. We could then gradually migrate to > the > > new naming scheme externally. I think we'd eventually want to move the > > include path to 'mozilla/String.h' as well if we went this route, in the > > interim we could just have stubs that redirect to the mozilla path. > > > > I'm not sure how much backing that has -- we'd be going from nsString => > > String which is pretty close to std::string -- it would be interesting to > > get some feedback. > > > > -e > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-platform mailing list > > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
