On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Mike Cowlishaw <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Ah, OK, yes the need to override, etc., does make
> dual-naming overcomplicated.
>
cancel is the right verb because the method to cancel the alarm is
"cancel". "reset" also would imply to me that the alarm might be reused,
which is not possible. I suppose I could make the methods "triggered" and
"cancel" to get around this problem.
Rick
>
> But if 'cancel' was the right verb then perhaps something like 'reset' or
> 'scrap' would get the sense better than 'stop' (which implies it might be
> restarted?).
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Rick McGuire [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* 15 October 2014 16:43
>
> *To:* Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [Oorexx-devel] Synonyms for canceled...
>
> It is a case where people provide an object that implements a particular
> interface that the alarm object will call for certain events. The event
> methods are "alarmTriggered" and "alarmStopped" currently. The alarm needs
> to have a well defined method name to call and the interface class that the
> objects need to inherit contains a default implementation of the target
> methods that get overridden by the implementing object, if needed. The
> programmer would not be expected to call "alarmStopped" directlly, but will
> be fielding the calls from the alarm object.
>
> Rick
>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Mike Cowlishaw <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> So it's not people who write the code for the alarm objects? :-). Or
>> if it is only one person, then he or she can choose either spelling ...
>> (but in general, I'd provide both anyway).
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Rick McGuire [mailto:[email protected]]
>> *Sent:* 15 October 2014 16:22
>> *To:* Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List
>> *Subject:* Re: [Oorexx-devel] Synonyms for canceled...
>>
>> That doesn't really work in this case, because these are methods that
>> get called by the alarm objects, not methods that that the user calls.
>>
>> Rick
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Mike Cowlishaw <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I was just defining an interface for the alarm class and was adding an
>>> method that will be called when an alarm is canceled. As I typed the name
>>> "alarmCanceled", I was uncertain of the correct spelling of "Canceled". It
>>> turns out "canceled" and "cancelled" are both valid spellings...sigh. For
>>> now, I'm using "alarmStopped" unless someone can come up with a better
>>> alternative.
>>>
>>> Why not provide both the UK and US spellings? That's what we did for
>>> centre/center and it must have saved many hours or days of peoples' time
>>> over the years ... :-)
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>
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