On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 23:52:55 +0200, Pavol Droba <droba@topmail.sk> wrote:
Well, it depends on what you define as 'de-facto' standard. I think that both names are equaly good.
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- Probably not very serious, but simple google comparison give following results: "trimhead OR trimhead" : 1,510 results
Just for precision sake: "trim_head OR trimhead"; yes, that yields 1510 results, of which many have nothing to do with programming.
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I don't have much time to look elsewhere, feel free to supply counterexamples.
Before considering your proposal, I would really need to see better argument then your personal opinion, since changing a name of a function that is already in use for some time is quite serious issue.
It is basically all about conventions. One has to specify that "left" means "head" and right means "tail" (and specify what head and tail are). To illustrate with an example, consider a sentence such as "the cartesian diagram of x = constant is a vertical straight line". Such a statement carries a ton of inaccuracies: a) the cartesian diagram concerns functions, and "x = constant" is not a function: it represents a function b) "vertical straight line" means nothing per se: it should be "line parallel to the y axis" c) bullet b is erroneous too if you only define parallelism between straight lines: an "axis" is not a line, because to be fully specified it needs an ordering between points (it can be defined as a pair (l, R) where l is a straight line and R an appropriate order relation on it). Thus to use the idiom "parallel to the axis" you should specify that "a straight line L is said to be parallel to an axis A if and only if it is parallel to the first component of A" (to which you can give a specific name, for instance "the support of the axis A"). That said, I prefer the trim_head and trim_tail names, even if less popular (and popularity could be a criterion which would lead all of us to use pretty much different names than we use in C++ :)) __ ----------------------------------------- Gennaro Prota, C++ developer for hire resume: available on request ------------------------------------------