about scheme names

about scheme names

[÷ÌÁÄÉÍÉÒ ãÉÛÅ×ÓËÉÊ]

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 (!).

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.

Regards,
Vladimir V. Tsychevski
senior expert

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Re: about scheme names

[Ariel Rios]

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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