I think it is a great idea, lets just drop the Decorator part.
it will make code shorter and more readable.
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Daniel Russel <> wrote:
> The names of some of the decorators (eg
> IMP.atom.MolecularHierarchyDecorator) are rather annoyingly long. For
> example
> mh= IMP.atom.MolecularHierarchyDecorator.create(p,
> IMP.atom.MolecularHierarchyDecorator.PROTEIN)
> One uniform way of shortening them would be to just drop the decorator bit.
> On the documentation side, it works since I had already established the
> shorthand of saying XYZ particle instead of XYZDecorator instance particle.
> Such a change would just require running a sed script on people's code, so
> the cost of the update would be small. Thoughts? The new names would
> include:
> XYZ
> XYZR
> Residue
> Atom
> MolecularHierarchy: still kind of long, since it is now in atom we could
> drop the Molecular part and just make it IMP.atom.Hierarchy, but this causes
> problems if you do using or import on IMP.atom and IMP.core (as I tend to
> do)
> RigidBody
>
> Thoughts, comments?
>
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