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"Smurfing" and "big-endian" are the same thing though!

IMO a big alphabetical list of everything in your project is not a useful or important thing. Use a language that has good support for hierachical namespaces, and use them.




I think big-endian naming was useful for programming with editors that supported tab completion. At one point, the suggestions were only displayed alphabetically. Nowadays, editors use a more sophisticated algorithm (is there a name for it? Fuzzy search, perhaps?) that suggests words containing the sequence of characters already typed anywhere within it.




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