On Friday 2013-02-15 21:11 +1300, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 6:59 PM, L. David Baron <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > So I was just using sed to write a (long-overdue) patch to rename
> > nsIFrame::GetStyleContext to nsIFrame::StyleContext to follow our
> > convention that getters that can't return null don't have "Get" in
> > the name.
> >
> > While I was doing that, it occurred to me that perhaps, instead of
> > nsIFrame::StyleContext(), it should just be nsIFrame::Style().
> >
> 
> They sound about the same level of goodness to me.

I'll probably stick with StyleContext(), since I already have the
patch to do that, and it's more familiar to people.

> Are you going to rename GetStyleBackground as well?

That's the plan, but maybe not right now; it's probably a rather
larger patch.

> To StyleBackground() or BackgroundStyle()?

I hadn't thought about it yet, but probably just dropping the "Get"
is simpler both in terms of function/type correspondence and
people's existing expectations.

-David

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𝄞   L. David Baron                         http://dbaron.org/   𝄂
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