Re: Resurrecting the Function Renaming Thread

>Phil Driscoll wrote: >[snip] >> I'm all for less typing myself and I'd rather see underscores disappear >> rather than be added all over the place, but I'm happy to go with the >>flow as long as consistency wins. One advantage of losing underscores is that >>the standard C functions don't have them, and neither would we. Zak replied >I agree that length is a concern. But... >I don't think that we should do this - it would be an even larger >change than anything proposed so far and would break everything. > I beg to differ :) I've just checked through the list of functions in the manual, and without actually counting, I would have said that there are more function names which don't have underscores in the name (not counting the libname_ prefix, where present) than those that do. Hence removing rather than adding is a smaller change. I'm only talking about aliasing here, so I don't propose to break anything. That said, I don't mind which way it goes as long as it goes! I was only trying to find a way of keeping the C fraternity (which includes me) happy. Cheers -- Phil Driscoll Dial Solutions +44 (0)113 294 5112 http://www.dialsolutions.com http://www.dtonline.org