On Nov 30, 7:22 am, "Mark Volkmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there a rule of thumb to apply when deciding whether to separate
> multiple words in a function name with hyphens?
> I can't detect a pattern in how this was decided for many provided functions.
> Here are some examples that use hyphens: dotimes, gensyms, macroexpand
> Here are some that don't: drop-last, find-doc, lazy-cat

Hi Mark,
There's no hard-and-fast rule, but a lot of it comes from Common Lisp,
like gensyms and macroexpand.  There are a bunch of CL naming
conventions at <http://www.cliki.net/Naming%20conventions> but these
are not used entirely consistently in Clojure.

-Stuart Sierra
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