Re: [AD] al_verb_noun

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On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 20:48 +1100, Peter Wang wrote:
> 
> When designing an API, especially little self-contained ones, I just end
> up naming functions with "module qualifiers", as you can see in the
> internal vector functions, the internal thread functions, the path
> functions and now the string functions.  It's *not* al_<object>_<verb>
> though.  It just happens that the module qualifier is usually a noun :)
> 

I think we should also remove the prefix from the path, config and
fshook functions, if we can come up with good alternatives. That paper
Grzegorz wrote long ago about why we should use al_verb_noun is still
convincing me :)

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Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>





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