giD v0.9.2 GObject Introspection binding repository and generator with Gtk4 support (page 2)

On 18/02/2025 1:16 PM, Element Green wrote: > I got another request for making the names lower case. I guess that would be **snake_case** for the modules and just lowercase for the package names? So for example `pangocairo.font_map.FontMap` would be the `package.module.class`. I'm considering making these changes, since it was only recently released and I have the version < 1.0 for a reason. I must admit though that I prefer CamelCase but understand the reasons for using lowercase packages and modules (for case insensitive file systems). If you are generating these modules, and its coming from the source material, stick with the source material for names. Otherwise you could get conflicts at a later point in time (not good).

On Tuesday, 18 February 2025 at 00:30:55 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote: > On 18/02/2025 1:16 PM, Element Green wrote: >> I got another request for making the names lower case. I guess that would be **snake_case** for the modules and just lowercase for the package names? So for example `pangocairo.font_map.FontMap` would be the `package.module.class`. I'm considering making these changes, since it was only recently released and I have the version < 1.0 for a reason. I must admit though that I prefer CamelCase but understand the reasons for using lowercase packages and modules (for case insensitive file systems). > > If you are generating these modules, and its coming from the source material, stick with the source material for names. > > Otherwise you could get conflicts at a later point in time (not good). Well its GObject Introspection which is flexible with respect to how languages utilize it for creating language bindings. It is encouraged to utilize it in a way that feels native from what I understand. It seems like most languages use TitleCase for namespaces and class names, but snake_case for function names. This includes Python, C++, and Rust from what I can tell. This matches what is in the GIR files. At the moment giD matches this, other than I'm using camelCase for function/method/enum value names instead of snake_case. I like it how it is, but I want to make sure it isn't too offensive to D programmers ;-)

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Re: giD v0.9.2 GObject Introspection binding repository and generator with Gtk4 support

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On Tuesday, 18 February 2025 at 00:16:40 UTC, Element Green wrote:

On Monday, 17 February 2025 at 11:32:06 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:

Amazing! The only thing I do not like is that module/package names are upper-case, but GtkD does the same so it should be easier to move to gid/gidgen if it turns to be equally good...

I got another request for making the names lower case. I guess that would be snake_case for the modules and just lowercase for the package names? So for example pangocairo.font_map.FontMap would be the package.module.class.

First off: Cool project!

About names: Indeed, this is what the language spec has to say about module names (https://dlang.org/spec/module.html):

By convention, package and module names are all lower case. This is because these names have a one-to-one correspondence with the operating system's directory and file names, and many file systems are not case sensitive. Using all lower case package and module names will avoid or minimize problems when moving projects between dissimilar file systems.

Cheers,
Bastiaan.

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