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Subject: Re: Small suggestion for flow: Cocoon instead of cocoon
From: Bruno Dumon <bruno@outerthought.org>
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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 21:30:45 +0200
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On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 07:28, Steve K wrote:
> Hey folks -
> 
> I hope it isn't too late for such a trivial suggestion, and I hope this hasn't 
> been discussed before, but is there any particular reason the global cocoon 
> object in flow is lowercased?  I am used to working with JavaScript in 
> Mozilla and its "window into the guts" object name is "Components".  You can 
> see some examples here:
> 
> http://www.mozilla.org/scriptable/components_object.html
> 
> Plus, Microsoft's use of JavaScript in its technologies (WSH, ASP) does the 
> same with similar objects (WSH has WScript, ASP has Request, Response, 
> Server, Session). 
> 

Doesn't javascript use the same naming convention as Java: lowercase for
instances, uppercase for classes?

The "cocoon" object is actually an instance of a class called
FOM_Cocoon.

Similary, the "window" object in a browser is also lowercased.

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Bruno Dumon                             http://outerthought.org/
Outerthought - Open Source, Java & XML Competence Support Center
bruno@outerthought.org                          bruno@apache.org