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[Ali Çehreli]

Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Friday, January 21, 2011 13:30:11 Ali Çehreli wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>  > iswhite
>>
>> I like separating is with an underscore, like most coding styles do:
>>
>>    is_whitespace
>>
>> Warm and fuzzy... :)
> 
> Most? I've never dealt with a coding style that had underscores.

Sorry for being unclear. My comment was only in the context of is_. I 
like separating "is" with an underscore. Probably because "is" is not 
part of the name. It operates at a different linguistic level.

 > It's generally
> camelcase, though I get the impression that using underscores in C code is more 
> common (I've mostly used C++ and Java).

Same here: always camelcase, except in our C libraries. Now I like 
underscore more than before. :)

 > Regardless however, Phobos' coding style
> uses camelcase, not underscores. And this whole thread was started to try and 
> find better names for functions which need new names, because they don't 
> currently follow Phobos' naming conventions.

I am aware of that. Then half seriously, let's change the standard to 
use underscore after "is". Also when parts of a camelcased name are too 
loosely related.

For example, when NodeReader is an interface and when we already have a 
LovelyDb, we may have a class named LovelyDb_NodeReader.

Ali