Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] MList name (was: ExtList v0.1o)

[Amit D. <ad...@Co...>]

> 
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:43:51AM +0100, fva wrote:
> 
> > I would strongly object to ListMutable... The order doesn't look right 
> > for an English-lexicalized language (even if it is designed and managed 
> > in French ;) )
> 
> However, ListMutable is a better name if you want to have an alphabetical
> listing of contributed modules and want conceptually close modules to be
> listed close to each other.
> 
> That parses as (Category: List; Subcategory: Mutable)

    Hi Everyone,

    I think it is important to make a disctinction here.  When I see
SomethingLikeThis, I assume it is a noun phrase.  If I see
Something.Like.This, I assume each identifier is a level on a
hierarchy.

    As a native English speaker, I will tell you that ListMutable
is an *ungrammatical* noun phrase.  I beleive the order of
adjuncts is the opposite in romance languages, but this is the
way it is done in English.  On the other hand, I can see the
argument for calling it ExtList.Mutable (this would
be like ExtList::Mutable the way Perl/CPAN does things).

    As another poster alluded, if you think ListMutable is
a good idea, to be consistant you must also use names like
TableHash, QueuePriority, etc.  You can argue this is
different from the category/subcategory schema argued for
"MutableList", but it isn't clear to me (and wouldn't be
clear for any new users) why we use the category/subcategory
schema in some places, and why we use grammatical English
noun phrases in other places.

    I beleive rather, that we should stay consistant and
use the English noun phrase grammar Adjective* Noun, rather
than Noun Adjective*.  I agree that category/subcategory disctinction
is useful one to make, but we need to find another way of doing
this.

    -Amit



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