<snip> > Not to hit below the belt, but the only place that I have seen that > naming used in practice is in the Win32/COM world. Can you name > another? ;-) </snip>
We do it as part of our coding conventions (we also do the Abstractxxx thing too). Im rather pro doing it that way too. Mostly its a matter of taste, though I do find it helps to visualise the design better (a diagram would also help - but who has time for that, and anyhow I think better in code than in pictures) - as soon as I see an Ixxx I know that its intended that will be different impls that plug in, and that Id get a lot further trying to instantiate one of those than the interface class... etc...
It works niely for us, but I doubt we would lose much doing it the other way. Certainly beats trying to think of new words that end in 'able'. ;-) Ymmv...
Larry Meadors wrote:
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:30:18 +0100, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can you tell me the exact difference between a leading "I" and a leading "Abstract" ?
AbstractButton, AbstractModel, AbstractAction...
"Abstract" describes the behavior (the class is an abstract or partial implementation), where "I" is just a name mangler...I suppose you *could* argue that it describes the *lack of* behavior, but that still seems like nonsense. ;-)
I am unaware of any interfaces in the JDK that are ISomething.
There was almost none of those in jdks 1.0, 1.1.x and so on, till swing / 1.2. Wait till 1.6 :-)
OK, you made me look at 1.6, which I suppose is a good thing. :-)
But you also proved my point - I am looking at it now, and see many, many interfaces, and not a *single one* that is named with a leading "I" that is not part of what the interface describes - and no, Iterator does not count...but it was still darn funny!
Not to hit below the belt, but the only place that I have seen that naming used in practice is in the Win32/COM world. Can you name another? ;-)
Larry
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