On 1/20/12 7:31 PM, Michel Fortin wrote:
On 2012-01-20 17:58:28 +0000, Andrei Alexandrescu
<[email protected]> said:
I tallied the votes.
Function: Mail Mantis, bearophile, Jacob Carlborg, Olivier Pisano, Ary
Manzana, torhu.
Property: Nick Sabalausky, Simen Kjaeraas.
I wasn't able to discern a clear vote from the others. Please correct
the list.
Votes ?!?
I think byKey and byValue are oddly named, property or not.
Give them better names and convince others. Please don't choose "keys"
and "values".
Since you
asked, I think they should be properties. But I don't care really. What
I care about is consistency.
Mindless consistency would probably be unnerving too.
Voting on a case by case basis is just nonsensical. What's needed are
guidelines and rationales covering how to name things and by extension
what should and shouldn't be a property. If something needs to be put to
vote, it should be those guidelines.
I attempted a while ago to write some guidelines on the wiki, feel free
to use them if they make sense to you.
<http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?DProgrammingGuidelines>
A good outcome of this vote might have been the distillation of some
simple guidelines, as opposed to enforcing some arbitrary consistency.
Apparently the participants in this thread are divided regarding general
rules as well as their applicability to this particular case.
Andrei
