Naming convention for modified classes?

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Russell Wallace - 22 Nov 2006 11:24 GMT

Is there a naming convention for classes that are almost the same as
ones in the standard library? For example, a class that's a
DataInputStream except with an added method to read strings over 64K?
ModifiedDataInputStream and DataInputStreamWithLongStrings seem
excessively ugly.

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Thomas Weidenfeller - 22 Nov 2006 11:56 GMT

> Is there a naming convention for classes that are almost the same as
> ones in the standard library? For example, a class that's a
> DataInputStream except with an added method to read strings over 64K?
> ModifiedDataInputStream and DataInputStreamWithLongStrings seem
> excessively ugly.

Another very ugly, but common naming schema is "My<something>". :-(

In the above case I would maybe call the class DataInputStream64k or
Data64InputStream.

/Thomas

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