Re: More on IDL

Jayakumar Muthukumarasamy ([email protected])
Mon, 19 Dec 1994 09:52:15 -0500 (EST)

>
> I don't like the SmallTaLk convention very much. thisLooksFunny,
> this_looks_less_funny. Amulet uses underscores, but the method names are
> capitalized.

Underscores definitely improve readability. I guess we can stick
with the underscores.

>
>
> I don't know what to do here. What can we do to stay independent of
> particular implementations? Is there already a published proposal for what
> the standard classes will be and what their interface will look like?
>
> If there is, we could build our own collection classes as wrappers of LEDA
> classes that we want to use. We probably won't use many so this wouldn't be
> too much work. Also, if the standard catches on, I assume the LEDA
> implementors will come up with collection classes that use the standard
> interface.
>
>

We do not have access to the standards for the class libraries.
And, when there is a standard, I am sure, LEDA will enforce it. So, we can
use LEDA as it is. The conversion to standards can probably be done as
necessary.

-jk