+1 Brian On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Brian Gerkey wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Advait Jain wrote: >> I agree with Shaun. >> >> My personal preference is for the message name to reflect the message data >> type as opposed to what the message is used for. >> >> The topic name can then tell us whether the message is being used for >> humidity or pressure. > > While that approach can make it easier to develop certain tools, it > runs contrary to what we've been trying to do with standard message > formats. The message definition tells you as much about the semantics > of the data as it does about the syntax. I think that we're better > off using semantically typed messages wherever possible. > > brian. > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users -- Lorenz Mösenlechner | moesenle@in.tum.de Technische Universität München | Karlstraße 45 80335 München | Germany http://ias.cs.tum.edu/ | Tel: +49 (89) 289-26910