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From: "Paul Stodghill" <stodghil@CS.Cornell.EDU>
To: "Caml Mailing List (E-mail)" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: [Caml-list] Naming conventions
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 09:10:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E4B8DE6B1848DD4D9248EFCCF9A59F4B05D937@opus.cs.cornell.edu> (raw)

In Scheme, there is a conventtion that the names of destructive functions end with "!" and predicates end with "?". E.g., "append!" vs. "append", and "null?", "pair?", etc.

Are there any similar conventions that people use in O'Caml?

I ask because I am implementing a class and I want to provide both destructive and non-destructive versions of some of the methods. I would like the method names to clearly indicate which is which.

Thanks.
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             reply	other threads:[~2002-05-08 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-08 13:10 Paul Stodghill [this message]
2002-05-08 14:04 ` Ken Wakita
2002-05-08 13:31 Gregory Morrisett
2002-05-08 13:33 Krishnaswami, Neel
2002-05-08 13:59 ` Dave Mason
2002-05-08 17:12   ` Pierre Weis

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