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cjac — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:27:47 -0000

You know... the DLR folks have implemented a LOLCODE runtime...

http://www.sorn.net/blog/20...

Oh, wait... you were at Lang.NET; you knew that :)

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Mikayla Hutchinson — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:47:33 -0000

One can't complain about IHasSourceView, as it's just using the standard 'I' prefix for an interface, and HasSourceView is a perfectly good name. It's a clever twist on convention.

The other one, less so...

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Timothy Fries — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:50:33 -0000

IHasSourceView is pretty clever -- it fits both the meme and the language's naming conventions.

ActiveSourceCanHasBrowser should go, though. Names in code have a way of sticking around a long, long time; and imagine how stupid you'd feel today if that property was named AllYourBrowserAreBelongToActiveSource a few years ago instead. Jokes have a way of getting old.

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ceilingcat — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:26:09 -0000

Ceiling cat does not approve. Srsly.

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Renaud Lepage — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:23:45 -0000

Is this in the releases, or in the LOLcat branch? :P

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iCanHasName — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:18:29 -0000

Great fun! :)

I don't see why one would really mind coding style like this... ;)
As long as it is still kind of clear what the classes/methods/interfaces/whatever do.

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James Henstridge — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:30:29 -0000

It isn't like this is the first time pop culture references have worked their way into API naming.

IIRC, gtk_file_chooser_set_local_only() was a League of Gentlemen reference.

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Christian Kellner — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:09:01 -0000

Me too! :-) In GnomeVFS source:
2008-03-18 Christian Kellner <gicmo@gnome.org>

* modules/http-neon-method.c: Don't use ranged GETs for broken
servers. Marked broken for Range: so far: youtube.

The function is called:
static gboolean i_can_haz_range_cause_serverz_not_br0ken (HttpContext *hctx);

[http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc...]

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haacked — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:56:50 -0000

You might consider a Swedish Chef naming convention. Classes consists of one or more Borks.

public class BorkBorkBork {}

of course, an interface would be:

public interface IBorkBork {}

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Jim — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:28:30 -0000

throw new EPIC_FAIL();

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Matt — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:15:16 -0000

Screw c, c++, python, mono etc. Clearly there is only one direction to take: http://lolcode.com/

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Ayende Rahien — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:52:57 -0000

I would say that this should be changed. It is cute, but should not be part of a public API.

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D. Lambert — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:42:37 -0000

I can haz mashups? -- http://www.appdev.info/?q=n...

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nachokb — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:30:20 -0000

Well, I can say the Banshee guys are the only ones doing it! [1]; even though, it made me laugh at first :).

[1] http://code.google.com/p/ca...

nachokb

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Stevi Deter — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:24:47 -0000

It'll be a great tool for dating your code in the future.

"Ah, yeah, that was during my unfortunate LOLCat phase."

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Nick — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:06:25 -0000

Well Miguel looks like you're having fun in the office! I need a job there haha.

I thought I'd change the tone of your usual blog comments, all of which seem to be really angry at you for no real reason!

Keep up the good work, Novel and Gnome are better for having you

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SE — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:58:48 -0000

You should re-program your source in LOLCODE.

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BC — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:49:50 -0000

Nobody *seriously* thinks this is a good idea, right? Code is hard enough to read, especially for non-English speakers, without this sort of stuff to deal with too.