Re: [precis] do subclasses need names?

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Wed, 11 April 2012 21:50 UTC

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We could go all Perly and do FreeClass::resourcepart

;-)

On 4/11/12 2:33 PM, Joe Hildebrand wrote:
> That seems like a reasonable idea.  Is there a suggested naming
> pattern that denotes the superclass?  E.g. ResourceFreeClass,
> LocalpartNameClass
> 
> 
> On 4/11/12 1:54 PM, "Peter Saint-Andre" <stpeter@stpeter.im>
> wrote:
> 
> While writing documents that subclass the base PRECIS classes,
> I've found myself naming the subclasses (e.g., rfc6122bis talks
> about the localpart subclass of the NameClass and the resourcepart
> subclass of the FreeClass). Is this something we want to encourage?
> If so, does it make sense to gather those names when people
> register new uses of PRECIS as requested in the framework
> document?
> 
> Peter
> 
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