Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] ExtLib v0.1o

[Remi V. <van...@la...>]

"Nicolas Cannasse" <war...@fr...> writes:

>> > > > Can we rename MList to something more descriptive, such as
> List_Mutable?
>> > >
>> > > And after several times List_Mutable.iter is getting
>> > > really verbose ( by the way that seems to be the caml team opinion=
 as
> well
>> > > since we have Hashtbl and not Hashtable module )
>> >
>> > Well, Hashtbl is at least understandable what it is, shortening Muta=
ble
> to
>> > M is not.
>>
>> I agree with this.  Every time I see MList, it gets parsed as ML-ist (=
like
>> duelist or trombonist) rather than M-List, and it takes me time to
>> remember what the heck an ML-ist is...
>>
>> My vote would go for a longer more descriptive name such as Mutable_Li=
st
>> (+0.9) or Mut_List (+0.6).  Besides, aren't long, commonly used
>> identifiers why jeebus invented keyboard macros?
>
> For a langage-design problem, you're using an editor solution... I thin=
k
> you're totally wrong here, because as we can choose, they shouldn't
> be *any* long, commonly used identifier.

I completely disagree here. Identifier should be easily
understandable, then short. I mean that It is more important than one
can understood its meaning than the fact it is short.

Then Mut_List is understandable, and relatively short.=20

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R=E9mi Vanicat
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