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From: Ariel Rios <ariel@arcavia.com>
To: "÷ÌÁÄÉÍÉÒ
	ãÉÛÅ×ÓËÉÊ" <wowa@jet.msk.su>
Cc: guile-gtk@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: about scheme names
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:12:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <387CC2C4.D38F722C@arcavia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E128JI7-0000A9-00@horse>

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÷ÌÁÄÉÍÉÒ ãÉÛÅ×ÓËÉÊ wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Many gtk+ functions have 'void' return type, so they are called for
> side effects only. Usually the names of such procedures in Scheme are
> suffixed with exclamation sign (!).
The practice is that 'operations that change the value of variables
(or that change data strucs) are given names that end with an
exclamation mark'
I don't think that Gtk funcs that return void fall into this category.
 
> Also the common practice is to name the arguments and procedures,
> which are of boolean type, with names ending with question mark (?).
> 
> IMHO, it would be useful to make corresponding updates in the
> guile-gtk procudere, wich convert C names to Scheme names.

I don't think adding ! and ? is not a good idea. IMHO, we shall follow
Gtk naming conventions as close as possible.

Ariel

      reply	other threads:[~2000-01-12 10:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-01-12  0:38 ÷ÌÁÄÉÍÉÒ ãÉÛÅ×ÓËÉÊ
2000-01-12 10:12 ` Ariel Rios [this message]

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