Period-separated recursive model creation

[jamesplease]

I've been thinking about the current implementation of modules in Marionette and one thing about them strikes me as strange. To explain, let me start by examining a list of their properties:

1. They can soon be extended. This makes them similar to most of the objects in the Backbone-Marionette universe, such as Item Views
2. They have a start/stop state, and a series of initializers and finalizers associated with them. This makes them like Applications.
3. They can recursively be nested by calling Application.module and passing a period-separated string of names. This makes them...a bit odd?

The third item there really stands out to me. Maybe there's some good use-case for the recursive parent-child creation mechanism, but I can't think of any. Do you use it? If there are some good uses, then, well, that's fine. I wouldn't be surprised if I'm simply not creative enough to see the use.

But if not I would propose removing it entirely in the next big update to Marionette, for the sake of a more consistent, simpler framework.

[cobbweb]

Yes, I use it extensively... our directory structure is mapped to the namespaces. So files in js/editor/sidebar/*.js are all in the Editor.Sidebar namespace.

[jamesplease]

Ah, okay. Well, then I guess this issue is as good as closed.