d assigns name Philosophy

dolive dolive89 at sina.com
Thu Apr 30 12:24:24 PDT 2009


Andrei Alexandrescu дµ½:

> dolive wrote:
> > bearophile дµ½:
> > 
> >> dolive:
> >>> Suggest the d Language and phobos lib ( And other lib )  assigns name to use the tallest phrase in the phrase of  word frequency .  This, should study toward the java .  This is also the key that the java jdk source code easily reads 
> >>> This is also one of the java successful keys .
> >>> thank you very much !
> >> Are you trying to suggest to follow the Zipf's law in naming things in Phobos/Tango?
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law
> >> I agree.
> >>
> >> Bye,
> >> bearophile
> > 
> > 
> > yes£¬is so
> 
> I'm not very sure. That would suggest using exceedingly common names 
> (the, on, go, do, be, and, use...) which are often imprecise because 
> they are used in a variety of contexts (hence their frequency). I often 
> prefer a word that has a precise meaning.
> 
> Andrei

Ok, has a precise meaning is a premise. 
when have more than two phrases, choosing high that of  use the tallest phrase in the phrase ( Function name )  of  word frequency .  

For example: 
      getData and fetchData.

the choice getData 




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