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by Groxx 4704 days ago
It's also a sign that your language lacks namespaces.
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millstone 4704 days ago
Right, if only it used C#! Then it could use nice short names like ListViewVirtualItemsSelectionRangeChangedEventHandler or DataGridViewColumnDividerDoubleClickEventArgs.
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MichaelGG 4704 days ago
Oh god. That's an artifact of the idiotic VB-style, non-generic event handling "pattern". If event handlers used normal functions like everything else this just wouldn't be a problem (those types just wouldn't exist).
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Groxx 4704 days ago
haha, you win this round :) though using a Microsoft (or Java) codebase might be considered cheating.
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