On 21/12/2010 18:19, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:10:12 -0500, Bruno Medeiros
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 06/12/2010 19:00, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Monday, December 06, 2010 05:41:42 Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
I have no problem with writeTo(). I just couldn't remember what it
was and
didn't want to take the time to look it up, and the name isn't as
obvious as
toString(), since it's not a standard name which exists in other
languages, and
it isn't actually returning anything. Whether it's to or from would
depend on
how you look at it - to the given delegate or from the object. But
writeTo() is
fine. Once it's used, it'll be remembered.
I don't think it's entirely fine. It should at least have
"string"/"String" somewhere in the name. (I mentioned this on the
other original thread, although late in time)
First, I'll say that it's not as important to me as it seems to be to
you, and I think others feel the same way. writeTo seems perfectly fine
to me, and the 'string' part is implied by the char[] parameter for the
delegate.
Changing the name to contain 'string' is fine as long as:
1) it's not toString. This is already established as "returning a
string" in both prior D and other languages. I think this would be too
confusing.
2) it's short. I don't want writeAsStringTo or something similar.
What did you have in mind?
-Steve
Sorry for the long delay in replying..
I don't have any specific favorite name. Could be writeString, asString,
stringWrite, ouputString, even toString (despite a different signature
from other languages), etc.
Or a similar name with Text instead of String, as Andrei suggested
(although I'm not 100% sure about that last one).
It's just that I would prefer the String connotation to be implied in
the function name, not just implied in the parameter (makes the code
clearer, in a somewhat subjective opinion). And also to not take up the
"writeTo" overload in all Objects ever, as some might want to use that
overload name for their own stuff.
--
Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer
