On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 08:08:20AM -0700, Leslie P. Polzer wrote:
> 
> On Mar 15, 2:30 pm, Jan Rychter <[email protected]> wrote:
> > For the record, I disagree with the naming changes in
> > a6239b803651. The names were carefully thought out. The
> > rationale for keeping the very short accessor names was that
> > these functions will always be used on an object called
> > "uri-tokens" (or similar), and (all *uri-tokens*) reads more
> > naturally than (all-tokens *uri-tokens*). So does (remaining
> > uri-tokens).
> 
> I've recognized this when I made the change, but I felt that short
> names like that should be reserved for simple functions.
> 
> The rename also has the advantage of fitting in with the rest of
> the accessor naming in Weblocks.
> 
> It's still debatable so it would be good to hear other people's
> opinion on it.

I prefer maximum verbosity in function names, in general.  This
doesn't seem sufficiently exceptional to me.

-Robin

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