From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: A minor name improvement suggestion to Guile API Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:46:04 +0100 Message-ID: <87d42d6fpv.fsf@gnu.org> References: <7aee91500912160514v69c10c6ekf482bd8db88f324d@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1261047025 1381 80.91.229.12 (17 Dec 2009 10:50:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:50:25 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 17 11:50:18 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NLDvw-0008Uv-Bq for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:50:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53982 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NLDvw-0008A1-3Y for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:50:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NLDsV-0005tQ-Bx for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:46:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NLDsQ-0005pz-6a for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:46:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41456 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NLDsP-0005pk-Ck for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:46:33 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:46137) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NLDsP-0002vw-3T for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:46:33 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NLDsI-00071U-LH for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:46:26 +0100 Original-Received: from laptop-147-210-128-170.labri.fr ([147.210.128.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:46:26 +0100 Original-Received: from ludo by laptop-147-210-128-170.labri.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:46:26 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: laptop-147-210-128-170.labri.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 27 Frimaire an 218 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QelnRYjeHdx7OrYUEcqwEaI0mEo= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:7542 Archived-At: Hi, Yi DAI writes: > I'd like to suggest the following name convention which complies to names > commonly found in assembly languages. > > > - Replace < (less than) with *_lt*. > - Replace > (greater than) with *_gt*. Changing conventions would mean changing the API or maintaining function name aliases, and I don’t think it’s worth it. Thanks, Ludo’.