[Feel free to ignore this philosophical exploration.] Algol distinguishes procedures and functions. Let's use that terminology.
A procedure call is a kind of statement. Statements are composed by sequential execution (left to right, top to bottom). So it is natural to name something like this: convert_cat_to_dog(cat, dog); or (we won't discuss which parameter order is best) convert_cat_to_dog(dog, cat); A function call is composed in functional notation. Reading inner-to-outer is right-to-left. So this is more natural. felix = cat_from_dog(fido) I'm claiming that htonl would be more natural as nfromhl. I'm writing this to try to explore why I found the name same_chunk_as_in_pbs jarring. extern pb_stream same_chunk_as_in_pbs(chunk_t chunk, const char *name); As I first read it, and even now, I read "as_in" as a unit (a chunk in psychological terms). That made this a "garden path" name. Oh, English. I'm not sure what "same" is implying. Perhaps that the in_pbs doesn't have its own copy of the memory. I might have called this function in_pbs_for_chunk I'm a little bit surprised by a pbs being returned from a function. When I conceived of them, I didn't think of them as copyable. Perhaps they were linked together. But this turns out to be OK with the current implementation. _______________________________________________ Swan-dev mailing list Swan-dev@lists.libreswan.org https://lists.libreswan.org/mailman/listinfo/swan-dev