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Re: Time to Fish or Cut Bait [message #74835 is a reply to message #74711]

Wed, 02 February 2011 20:21

penteado
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On Feb 3, 1:29 am, Jeremy Bailin <astroco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I can see the argument, but I think the dominant convention is that the namespace comes at the beginning (how many people regularly use mg_... routines? and I certainly have lots of jb... calls in my code, whether or not anyone else does!). So I think convention comes first in this case.
>
> As for FSC_ vs. cg, I don't think cg is really much better, but I also don't really mind the change. What did FSC stand for anyways?

I use a prefix (pp_) for code I create. I only use a suffix (_pp) in
the very specific case of wrappers or edits I did to code written by
others (as in histogram_pp), so that it is clear that it is only a
small modification to something I did not write. Also, it keeps the
modification next to the original code alphabetically.

Besides being the common practice, and keeping a library's files
together alphabetically, prefixes make more obvious a name hierarchy:
first comes the root level (the developer or library name), which may
contain subgroups (the category of routine), which contain individual
routines.

I have not yet put my code into categories (which in hindsight I find
would have been good in some projects), so there is only the prefix
and the routine name (as in pp_isnumber). ITTVIS uses categories after
their prefix (as in IDLffShape and IDLanROI).

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		Time to Fish or Cut Bait By: David Fanning on Tue, 01 February 2011 11:55
		Re: Time to Fish or Cut Bait By: David Fanning on Tue, 01 February 2011 19:02
		Re: Time to Fish or Cut Bait By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Tue, 01 February 2011 18:26
		Re: Time to Fish or Cut Bait By: Jeremy Bailin on Wed, 02 February 2011 19:29
		Re: Time to Fish or Cut Bait By: David Fanning on Tue, 01 February 2011 15:16
		Re: Time to Fish or Cut Bait By: wlandsman on Tue, 01 February 2011 15:16
		Re: Time to Fish or Cut Bait By: Fabzou on Thu, 03 February 2011 01:42
		Re: Time to Fish or Cut Bait By: SonicKenking on Tue, 01 February 2011 14:16
		Re: Time to Fish or Cut Bait By: David Fanning on Tue, 01 February 2011 13:14
		Re: Time to Fish or Cut Bait By: Matt[2] on Thu, 03 February 2011 11:15
		Re: Time to Fish or Cut Bait By: David Fanning on Wed, 02 February 2011 22:00
		Re: Time to Fish or Cut Bait By: penteado on Wed, 02 February 2011 20:21

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