[Gretl-devel] Re: old and new ideas for the next 'extra' addon version
Am 25.04.2020 um 21:24 schrieb Cottrell, Allin:
On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 11:57 AM Sven Schreiber
<svetosch(a)gmx.net> wrote:
>
> 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 ...).
Consistency is good, and maybe trumps other considerations. But I
think function packages are/should be allowed latitude relative to
built-in functions. There are no underscores in names of built-ins (I
think) but they seem fine to me for readability in function packages.
Well, the thing with 'extra' is that it is supposed to be a collections
of things that might become a built-in at some point. At least that was
my understanding.
In that sense the naming convention of builtins should be kept in mind
at least for those functions that are performance-critical and therefore
might move to core-C-gretl. It would seem to me that MultiEqDraw or what
it's called might belong to that category. Others do not.
cheers
sven