[TYPO3-dev] Naming conventions

[Martin Kutschker]

Graham Solomon schrieb:
> Apologies if I am being incredibly stupid here, but not knowing what these
> mean really bugs me. If you could tell me the meaning behind these two
> conventions I would be grateful.
> 
> The prefix for BE classes 'SC_', and the prefix for BE frameset
> scripts 'alt_', I have racked my brains, searched google and read lots of
> source code comments but still no closer to learning the meaning! :)

I think that SC stand for SCript or Script Class.

alt is probably short for alternative. The current interface is the 
successor of another one (old, I have never seen it).

Masi