Remove org. from modestmaps

[tmcw]

Okay, this one's up for debate, it's just something that's been bugging me:

The com.modestmaps convention in this naming (which polymaps inherited), seems to be a narrowly Flash (and I suppose Java) idiom, not seem elsewhere in Javascript. Could the library eventually move to simply modestmaps?

[RandomEtc]

I'd consider aliasing it routinely in your app and see what sticks. e.g. I regularly do var MM = com.modestmaps in my app code. Sometimes I even copy all the com.modestmaps members to window with a quick for-in loop.

There needs to be something because e.g. Point, Location, Coordinate, Transformation, Projection and Map are all too generic for Modest Maps to claim in the global namespace. Is MM rare enough?

But yeah it could go away harmlessly - we could even make a com.modestmaps alias of whatever we choose.

[tmcw]

I think MM sounds good. I checked out the source to $.noConflict and it looks unobtrusive enough (albeit reliant on the browser... we'd have to improve that) that we could go for a concise namespace and never totally clobber other tools that take MM.

[RandomEtc]

Underscore has a similar feature, it's a tiny function and just a matter of saving the previous MM before creating your own.

On 5 May 2011 16:56, tmcw reply@reply.github.com wrote:

I think MM sounds good. I checked out the source to $.noConflict and it looks unobtrusive enough (albeit reliant on the browser... we'd have to improve that) that we could go for a concise namespace and never totally clobber other tools that take MM.

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[migurski]

+1 for MM as well - it's concise and it's what I end up actually using all the time anyway.

[tmcw]

Fixed in a905543d12ee0ea2bfef933d137d0677d0191269