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Is it somehow hip to misspell "class" as "klass", or is there a deeper meaning behind it?

by perlgeek 15y ago

DanielStraight 15y ago
class is a keyword.
- stefan1 15y ago
  I think perlgeek was referring to the use of user_klass and log_klass.
- sugerman 15y ago
  Not in the way its used in his samples.
- arctangent 15y ago
  The word doesn't seem to be used by itself however - the code in the article contains "user_klass" and "log_klass", which can presumably be spelled correctly without causing an issue?
  - pak 15y ago
    Yeah, it can, but perhaps you develop a habit for it whenever creating variable names, so there is some visual harmony between klass, old_klass, klass_dismissed, etc. when reading the code.
  - damoncali 15y ago
    The k is a useful visual hint, even when not necessary.
oinksoft 15y ago
I use `cls` in my ruby code, as I do in other langs; I think `klass` is unsightly.
- ojilles 15y ago
  ... to a non-German?
  - pilif 15y ago
    ... even to a German. It's Klasse, not "klass" (the ending e and the capital K are of some importance here)
    - ojilles 15y ago
      Ah, correct, thanks :-)
kyledr 15y ago
The author of the code must like German. He used "Matz" as a parameter, a German name, and klass = class in German.
- mnutt 15y ago
  Matz is short for Yukihiro Matsumoto, the creator of Ruby.
- eis 15y ago
  Matz is neither a common german name (I've never encountered it) nor is class "klass" in german. It's "Klasse". Maybe you just missed out an "e" on the name aswell? There is "Matze" which would be a short version of "Mathias".
lightyrs 15y ago
klass is used in meta programming as a way to control scope.
raganwald 15y ago
It is a sound engineering practice to avoid using keywords as names even when the language’s parser will let you get away with it. For consistency, some developers (myself included) will avoid words like `class` and `module` even when embedded in a longer name, such as `user_class`. I don’t use `klass`, but that’s because I’m a Java Bigco cubicle-dweller fraudulently passing himself off as a Rubyist and Javascripter. I prefer `clazz` in keeping with Sun examples.

Is it somehow hip to misspell "class" as "klass", or is there a deeper meaning behind it?

DanielStraight 15y ago

class is a keyword.

stefan1 15y ago
I think perlgeek was referring to the use of user_klass and log_klass.
sugerman 15y ago
Not in the way its used in his samples.
arctangent 15y ago
The word doesn't seem to be used by itself however - the code in the article contains "user_klass" and "log_klass", which can presumably be spelled correctly without causing an issue?
- pak 15y ago
  Yeah, it can, but perhaps you develop a habit for it whenever creating variable names, so there is some visual harmony between klass, old_klass, klass_dismissed, etc. when reading the code.
- damoncali 15y ago
  The k is a useful visual hint, even when not necessary.

oinksoft 15y ago

I use `cls` in my ruby code, as I do in other langs; I think `klass` is unsightly.

ojilles 15y ago
... to a non-German?
- pilif 15y ago
  ... even to a German. It's Klasse, not "klass" (the ending e and the capital K are of some importance here)
  - ojilles 15y ago
    Ah, correct, thanks :-)

kyledr 15y ago

The author of the code must like German. He used "Matz" as a parameter, a German name, and klass = class in German.

mnutt 15y ago
Matz is short for Yukihiro Matsumoto, the creator of Ruby.
eis 15y ago
Matz is neither a common german name (I've never encountered it) nor is class "klass" in german. It's "Klasse". Maybe you just missed out an "e" on the name aswell? There is "Matze" which would be a short version of "Mathias".

lightyrs 15y ago

klass is used in meta programming as a way to control scope.

raganwald 15y ago

It is a sound engineering practice to avoid using keywords as names even when the language’s parser will let you get away with it. For consistency, some developers (myself included) will avoid words like `class` and `module` even when embedded in a longer name, such as `user_class`. I don’t use `klass`, but that’s because I’m a Java Bigco cubicle-dweller fraudulently passing himself off as a Rubyist and Javascripter. I prefer `clazz` in keeping with Sun examples.