OpenEuphoria

Re: naming convention

• Posted by Aku <akusaya at g?x.net> Apr 18, 2008
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Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
> I'm not quite sure I follow. Can you expand a bit? I too dislike cryptic names
> but also dislike string_split_by_char("John Doe", " "). I would strive for a
> happy medium, but I am open to suggestions. The current functions are all
> lower
> case and separated by an underscore where needed. I was going to follow suite
> but I do not think that's what your speaking of.

Just my 0.02 cents (that's 0.0002$),

In my own Eu projects, because Eu do not have a neat namespace feature,
I usually named my function with combination of _ and camelCase.

So, if I were to make replace all function for strings library, I will use
a name like str_replaceAll instead of replaceAll or replace_all or 
str_replace_all. Then str_indexOf, str_lastIndexOf. The same goes for hash, 
math, dll, struct, date etc. Like hash_put, date_getSecond, etc.

How if we follow Java API for those standard packages? (vector, hash,
set, date, pattern (regex), etc) I think Java API is tested by time and by
users, and the design is quite great. 

When I create Eu program now, I almost always use my standard include file. 
Unfortunately not every people wants to write their own standard include file.