Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis:
>>>
>>>> These names should be more descriptive.
>>>>
>>>> * guix/store/database.scm (path-id): Rename to select-valid-path-id.
>>>> (sqlite-register): Rename to register-valid-path.
>>>> (register-items): Update accordingly.
>>>>
>>>> Change-Id: I6d4a14d4cde9d71ab34d6ffdbfbfde51b2c0e1db
>>>
>>> OK for ‘register-valid-path’.
>>>
>>> For ‘path-id’ my preference would be ‘valid-path-id’ or keeping
>>> ‘path-id’; ‘select’ looks odd as nothing’s being “selected” here in the
>>> non-SQL sense of the word.
>>
>> The main thing I'm trying to do here is make the procedures that
>> directly interact with the database stand out (similar to the ! suffix
>> convention). Maybe the procedure taking the db as an argument is enough,
>> but to me path-id/valid-path-id look too much like record accessors.
>
> I’d say that having an explicit ‘db’ argument is enough (similar to
> procedures that take a ‘store’ argument).

I've changed it to valid-path-id now.