rowCount sounds like its the total number of rows. rowNumber sounds like a particular row.
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 12:12 AM, Johann Hibschman <[email protected]> wrote: > rowCount is better. "count" clearly refers to the cardinality. "number" in > post-fix, like "rowNumber", sounds more like an ordinal, closer to > "rowIndex", at least to my ears. "numberOfRows" is once again clearly > cardinal, not ordinal, but it's longer. > > Cheers, > Johann > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 4:24 PM, stepharo <[email protected]> wrote: > >> thank chris. >> >> I can tell you that I would be even more productive if I would be a >> native speaker.... >> So should we use rowCount for method argument? >> because we got rows: rows meaning rows: rowCount and I rewrote them as >> rows: rowNumber but it could be better to have >> rows: rowCount. >> >> tx >> Stef >> >> Le 9/2/15 22:11, Chris Muller a écrit : >> >> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 3:05 PM, stepharo <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> a matrix has rowCount and columnCount and I was wondering if this api >>>> is the >>>> way to get >>>> the number of columns and rows of a matrix. >>>> Would rowNumber and columnNumber be better? >>>> >>> I think rowCount is better than rowNumber for that. >>> >>> You used "number of rows" in your own English right there, so >>> "numberOfRows" would be just as descriptive as rowCount, but not >>> better and certainly not worth changing the API, IMO. >>> >>> >>> >> >> >
