Re: New VSI post on Youtube

On 8/24/2024 10:36 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 20:58:56 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

On 8/24/2024 8:37 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 20:21:12 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

But later MS Basic flavors did have them:
* VB/VBS/VBA has RegExp class and Scripting.Dictionary
     COM class
* VB.NET has System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex and
     System.Collections.Hashtable (later replaced by
     System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary)

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Did you really have to type those longwinded names that just to access
them?
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In Python, it’s just “import re”.

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VB.NET like most modern languages use hierarchical
packages/namespaces. That tend to make the names longer.

 Python does hierarchies, too.

Python modules are not exactly like packages/namespaces, but
OK close.

                              But it had the sense to use a short name for
such a commonly-used package as “re”.

I guess there are two approaches to naming:
shorter is better -> less typing and smaller files
more explanatory is better -> easier maintenance
Arne