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Naming a package
Updated on Tuesday, July 26, 2022
NCC Follows the same naming convention as Java's naming convention. The purpose of naming a package this way is to easily create a "Name" of the package, this string of information contains
- The developer/organization behind the package
- The package name itself
Naming conventions
Package names are written in all lower-case due to the
fact that some operating systems treats file names
differently, for example on Linux Aa.txt and aa.txt
are two entirely different file names because of the
capitalization and on Windows it's treated as the same
file name.
Organizations or small developers use their domain name
in reverse to begin their package names, for example
net.nosial.example is a package named example
created by a programmer at nosial.net
Just like the Java naming convention, to avoid conflicts
of the same package name developers can use something
different, for example as pointed out in Java's package
naming convention developers can instead use something
like a region to name packages, for example
net.nosial.region.example
References
For Java's package naming conventions see
Naming a Package
from the Oracle's Java documentation resource, as the
same rules apply to NCC except for some illegal naming
conventions such as packages not being able to begin
with int or numbers