Hello,
I am currently writting a program called subuser(subuser.org), which is written
as classically imperative code. Subuser is, essentially, a package manager.
It installs and updates programs from repositories.
I have a set of source files
https://github.com/subuser-security/subuser/tree
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> Could you make the program name unique just by combining it with the
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> repository name in a single string?
In my case I cannot. But there is a larger reason why I wouldn't do this: It
would mean adding a special character that could not be included in the
repository name, that
> I'm curious what these practical reasons are. One my smallest source files
> has 870 lines in it, my largest nearly 9000.
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> If the problem is your editor, you should seriously consider switching.
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I think that the main reasons for doing so are as follows:
git status provides much m
> A reasonable compromise might be to keep the *data* assocated
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> with a SubuserProgram in a class, maybe together with a few
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> methods that are tightly coupled to it, but have the major
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> pieces of functionality such as install() implemented by
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> separate functions that operate *on* th
