to me, double colon is preferable to prefix. i am not very clear on the downside.
"filter" is a good example, so is "metadata", which has a very peculiar definition in rmarkdown. On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Sean Davis <seand...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, all. > > I am curious about what folks think about naming conventions for commonly > named functions, some of which are so common that even establishing a > generic would be difficult because of different use cases. Examples > include things like “filter”. One possibility is to use the Google Sheets > approach and prefix function names with ‘gs_’. The alternative approach is > to use the more common names and rely on folks to disambiguate if more than > one package that shares the name is loaded. The former has the advantage > of being more novice-friendly, but the latter is likely to sit nicely with > developers and regular R/Bioc users since the functions will be commonly > used. Any thoughts one way or the other? > > Thanks, > Sean > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
