Re: [scheme-reports-wg2] Library name aesthetics Linas Vepstas 03 Nov 2021 17:46 UTC
I suggest "rt-threads" for the second threads, since real-time is deeply and fundamentally different, and should not be confused with the ordinary case. I suggest "comprehensions" instead of "ec" because ec is a bit too short. All of the other shortened names correspond to ideas present in many programming languages, and are thus more-or-less readily understandable. "ec" is not. Sometimes, even the smart programmer needs a reminder of what something stands for. -- linas On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 2:55 AM Lassi Kortela <xxxxxx@lassi.io> wrote: > > > Aliases can be easily fit into this. R7RS could support plural names > > under (rnrs PLURAL (7)) once a minimal versioning system is established; > > SRFI names could be singularized in, say, (srfi SINGULAR), i.e. without > > the SRFI 97 ":...". > > > > Alternatively, R7RS-large could add plural aliases to its (scheme ...) > > namespace for compatibility with R6RS and thus paving a way for a > > possible later deprecation of the singular names in favor of consistency > > (with earlier standards). > > Interesting ideas. > > Apart from the singular/plural distinction, there's quite a lot of > stylistic difference as well. It would be nice to arrive at a consistent > aesthetic (while retaining backward compatible aliases, as you suggest). > > In particular, the following library names from SRFI 97 are very > verbose, probably without adding much clarity. Is "sorting-and-merging" > really clearer than "sort"? Rob Pike railed against "variables whose > names are small essays on their use" in a similar vein, and practical > Scheme programs' import lists tend to get quite long anyway. > > basic-string-ports [SRFI 6] > generalized-set! [SRFI 17] > multithreading [SRFI 18] > real-time-multithreading [SRFI 21] > multi-dimensional-arrays [SRFI 25] > basic-format-strings [SRFI 28] > with-shared-structure [SRFI 38] > eager-comprehensions [SRFI 42] > intermediate-format-strings [SRFI 48] > compare-procedures [SRFI 67] > basic-hash-tables [SRFI 69] > lightweight-testing [SRFI 78] > sorting-and-merging [SRFI 95] > > I would prefer the following names, which are more in line with the > brevity of RnRS names, and especially R7RS: > > string-ports > set! > threads > threads [a second time; the SRFI number disambiguates them] > format > shared > ec [all the identifiers have `ec` in their names] > format [a second time] > compare [all the identifiers have `compare` in their names] > hashtables > testing > sorting > > One could argue in detail about "thread" vs "threads" vs "threading". > > R6RS uses sub-libraries in a way that R7RS would consider gratuitous: > > arithmetic bitwise > arithmetic fixnums > arithmetic flonums > io ports > io simple > > but there are so few of them that it's probably not much of an issue. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "scheme-reports-wg2" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to xxxxxx@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/scheme-reports-wg2/94851071-24d9-39aa-578d-b520b64f7c77%40lassi.io. -- Patrick: Are they laughing at us? Sponge Bob: No, Patrick, they are laughing next to us.