+1 Agreed, Aliases in 3.x (should we target 2.x if there's a 2.5.13?) We know that Groovy 4.0 will break binary compatibility due to removal of split packages. We can remove the old names in Groovy 4.0.
Cheers, Andres ------------------------------------------- Java Champion; Groovy Enthusiast http://andresalmiray.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/aalmiray -- What goes up, must come down. Ask any system administrator. There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't. To understand recursion, we must first understand recursion. On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 5:13 PM Guillaume Laforge <glafo...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1, that's a great idea! > > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 5:08 PM Cédric Champeau <cedric.champ...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> +1 >> >> Le jeu. 11 juin 2020 à 16:56, Jeff Beck <beckj...@gmail.com> a écrit : >> >>> I find those aliases easier to understand. So I think it's a great >>> improvement. >>> >>> Jeff >>> >>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 9:50 AM Paul King <pa...@asert.com.au> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi folks, >>>> >>>> Given recent world events, there are numerous projects that are taking >>>> the opportunity to use more inclusive terminology especially in names >>>> within APIs. E.g. getting rid of things like master/slave, >>>> blacklist/whitelist, etc. While I have never witnessed any racist behavior >>>> in the Groovy community, it seems worthwhile to be as inclusive as we can. >>>> I scanned our codebase and it seems that the only potential candidate we >>>> have for such a change would be in SecureASTCustomizer. But feel free to >>>> chime in if you think there are others. >>>> >>>> For backwards compatibility, I wouldn't propose to remove the old names >>>> in the first instance, just provide friendly aliases. We can deprecate >>>> and/or remove the current names later if we feel the need. Some example >>>> aliases could be something like: >>>> >>>> tokensWhitelist => allowedTokens >>>> staticStarImportsWhitelist => allowedStaticStarImports >>>> importsBlacklist => prohibitedImports (or disallowedImports) >>>> >>>> Thoughts? >>>> >>>> Cheers, Paul. >>>> >>>> > > -- > Guillaume Laforge > Apache Groovy committer > Developer Advocate @ Google Cloud Platform > > Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/ > Twitter: @glaforge <http://twitter.com/glaforge> >
