On Tuesday, September 10, 2013, Richard Hipp wrote: > SURVEY QUESTION: > > The question for today is what to call this magic hint function: > > (1) unlikely(EXPR) > (2) selective(EXPR) > (3) seldom(EXPR) > (4) seldom_true(EXPR) > (5) usually_not_true(EXPR)
(1), on account of: it's already used in various programming languages. However, because o your point below i prefer "likely(<expr>, <probability>)", perhaps with the probability being required (can the probability be a non-constant expression?). Please feel free to suggest other names if you think of any. > > ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: > > The current implementation allows a second argument which must be a > floating point constant between 0.0 and 1.0, inclusive. The second argument > is an estimate of the probability that the expression in the first argument > will be true. The default is 0.05. Names like "unlikely" or "seldom" work > well when this probability is small, but if the second argument is close to > 1.0, then those names seem backwards. I don't know if this matters. The > optional second argument is not guaranteed to make it into an actually > release. > Right, but this is less annoying when the keyword name denotes likeliness: the probability argument is quite clearly a modifier of likelihood. That's another possible name: "likelihood()". Nico -- _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
