- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:02:54 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, RDFa mailing list <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: > ... > Prefixes are widely documented to be an antipattern in language design. > For example, see this e-mail: > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-archive/2009Jul/0125.html > > ...where I give a quite detailed analysis of why prefixes are a feature of > poor language design. > ... Indirection by prefixes is simpler than having no indirection at all, that is true. That being said, MANY people deal just fine with prefix-based indirection, and at least one indirection mechanisms we already have in HTML (class names -> CSS) is *far* more complicated. BR, Julian
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