Re: [racket-dev] consistency in names and signatures

2012-03-27 Thread Matthias Felleisen
On Mar 27, 2012, at 8:40 PM, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > we should consider otherwise simplifying some of these identifiers. That's very high on my list of goals for another, related experiment I have in mind. I know that this would remove the title of 'world champion in longest identifier names'

Re: [racket-dev] consistency in names and signatures

2012-03-27 Thread Neil Van Dyke
FWIW... * I have no strong opinion on whether it would be worthwhile, if done in a backward-compatible way. * If done in a *non*-backward-compatible way, it might be a headache. I know of systems in production with millions of lines of PLT/Racket code, and -- although PLT/Racket have been p

[racket-dev] consistency in names and signatures

2012-03-27 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Bug report 12652 reminded me of a topic that I brought up a while back, that I tried to incorporate into the Style Guide, and that I forgot to re-introduce here. Background: a lot of people think that consistency in naming, signature/contract, and functionality (for methods and functions) is