[stringtemplate-interest] package name

[Zenaan Harkness]

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On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 10:21:32AM -0700, Terence Parr wrote:
> Hi Guys.  Let me think some more.  I sure have to write ST a LOT...plus 
> we all abbrev it as ST.
> Ter

I guess what there ought to be is a programming language 'alias'
facility. That's where it 'ought' to be in my mind, eg:

   import org.stringtemplate.StringTemplate alias ST;

JCP anyone? :)

zen


> On Oct 17, 2009, at 3:19 AM, Robert Byrne wrote:
>
>> I have to agree, the easy readability of StringTemplate wins over the 
>> shorter ST for me.
>>
>> 2009/10/17 Zenaan Harkness <zen at freedbms.net>
>> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:14:33AM -0700, Jonathan Buhacoff wrote:
>> > Can we please keep complete class names?  I agree with Sam Harwell,
>> > who wrote in a different thread, that StringTemplate or Template is
>> > clearer than ST.
>>
>> I have to Ack this one!
>>
>> http://lwn.net/Articles/351422/
>> Just read last month, when Ken Thomson was asked what he'd do
>> differently about Unix IO api, he would have spelt creat as "create".
>>
>> zen
>>
>>
>> > On Oct 9, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Terence Parr wrote:
>> > > On Oct 8, 2009, at 7:08 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>> > >> On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 04:33:36PM -0700, Terence Parr wrote:
>> > >>> should i reuse org.stringtemplate or should package be
>> > >>> org.stringtemplate.v4 or something?  The classes are differently
>> > >>> named
>> > >>> so org.stringtemplate.ST and such might be ok.
>> > >>
>> > >> Are there any classes or packages that would overlap?
>> > >
>> > > Don't think so...ha! I just realized that the old package was:
>> > >
>> > > package org.antlr.stringtemplate;
>> > >
>> > > so
>> > >
>> > > package org.stringtemplate;
>> > >
>> > > it is then! no collision.
>> > >
>> > > Ter

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