On Jun 29, 2005, at 4:18 PM, Joseph J. Strout wrote:
At 4:00 PM -0600 6/29/05, Norman Palardy wrote:
No, it should NOT. This is not a feature we want our plugin authors
to use. All identifier names starting with an underscore are
reserved for use by us, for several reasons.
I'd just put that 2 sentences in the documentation and that way IF
anyone does use it they have been forwarned that this is a Bad Thing™
to do and should suffer accordingly IF REAL ever changes behaviors.
Yes, you're right about that. The IDE prevents ordinary users from
doing this, but we don't currently have any such protection for plugin
authors.
Right.
So document that plugin authors should NOT start identifiers with and
underscore because REAL has reserved this naming convention.
Then, if someone uses it, and suddenly their plugin breaks, you can say
"We told you not to" and be done with it.
Other wise you leave yourself open to the "But you never told us not to
do this therefore support it til hell freezes over" argument.
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