[Gretl-devel] Re: old and new ideas for the next 'extra' addon version

Am 25.04.2020 um 16:04 schrieb Artur Tarassow: > Am 25.04.20 um 15:42 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: >> On Sat, 25 Apr 2020, Sven Schreiber wrote: >>> Hehe, I think I "incepted" you, see three replies earlier. I don't >>> like >>> the underscore too much though (but it's not a full veto). syseqdraw? >>> multieqdraw? >> >> MultiEqDraw()? That would be CamelCase - see below. > I am more or less  indifferent wrt to the function name as such. It > should be meaningful and intuitive. > > However, we _should_ to be consistent as possible regarding naming > conventions. Unfortunately we've missed to define some conventions for > the "extra" package which is authored by different people at the > beginning. Currently we have almost all possible naming styles in > "extra". Yeah, almost - we don't have camel case in extra and I think Allin stated that he doesn't like that. And of course Jack's gap_filler is the only underscore around, and it would be easy to introduce an official alias 'gapfiller'. I agree some convention might be good, to an extent. But we already have a loose de-facto standard that you can see when looking at the list of gretl functions: No CamelCase, no underscores, nothing too long, uppercase only when it's an acronym (although it's actually inconsistent then to have kpsscrit, bkfilt, bkw, ghk ...). (Note that personally I like CamelCase, but that's not the point.)