DData revision (isSubsetOf / shorter names)

[Daan Leijen]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 12:44:03 +0100, Christian Maeder <maeder at tzi.de> wrote:

> Simon Marlow wrote:
>> I vote for consistently using isXXXX for predicates.
>
> this would (only) affect "null" (maybe "isEmpty" again) and "member".
>
> Please omit at least "Of" from XxxxOf, or what was the intention of "Of"? In Map this leads to a name "isProperSubsetOfBy" and apart form this "Subset" should become "Submap" within Map!
>
> Christian

So it is agreed: we use "isXXXX" :-)

I am not sure about "XXXXOf"  -- my taste says leave it out,
but I once added it as it seems more consistent.

I guess "submap" covers the meaning better than "subset" in the case of Map's.

-- Daan.


ps. I have a general remark towards nice cozy names like "subset", and "null",
versus consistent COBOL names like "isSubsetOf" and "isEmpty",
I believe that we should target an audience that sporadically uses the
library and those people must be able to guess names -- the lenght of
the name is not so important in that case, especially not for rarely
used operations like "isProperSubsetOf". A hard-core user can always
define "null = isEmpty; psubset = isProperSubsetOf" at the start of
his module. (and I feel that "null" should be reserved for lists)





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