The new, new phobos sneak preview

[Michel Fortin]

On 2009-04-12 14:24:07 -0400, Leandro Lucarella <llucax at gmail.com> said:

> Leandro Lucarella, el 12 de abril a las 15:19 me escribiste:
>> Michel Fortin, el 12 de abril a las 12:54 me escribiste:
>>> On 2009-04-12 11:09:51 -0400, Lars Kyllingstad 
>>> <public at kyllingen.NOSPAMnet> said:
>>> 
>>> Perhaps it should be renamed to isUnbounded then.
>> 
>> I was about to write exaclty the same suggestion. I'm glad I read the
>> responses before posting =)
> 
> Maybe isBounded, to avoid the double negation when checking for
> !isUnbounded...

Which makes me think of one thing: why "isBounded" instead of plain and 
simple "bounded"? Ranges don't respond to "isEmpty": they have "empty" 
instead.

I think it is time to establish some kind of standard for naming 
things, and then follow it. Something a little like Cocoa's Coding 
Guidelines comes to mind:

<http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/Cocoa/Conceptual/CodingGuidelines/CodingGuidelines.html>


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