Scheme naming conventions

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From: r2q2 <[email protected]>
Date: May 11, 2006 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Sisc-users] Scheme naming conventions
To: Norman Gray <[email protected]>


There is such a list found on the community scheme wiki. It can be
found at http://community.schemewiki.org/?variable-naming-convention .

On 5/8/06, Norman Gray <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> [This is really a Scheme question, rather than a specifically SISC one]
>
> In a recent feature request, Matthias said
>
> > There is a naming convention in Scheme that denotes
> > "with" with "/" in procedure names, e.g. |call/cc| for
> > |call-with-current-continuation|
>
> This made me think: is there a list anywhere, canonical or otherwise,
> of Scheme naming conventions?  At various times, I've googled for the
> obvious things without turning up any that I don't already know.
>
> I know of:
>
> predicate?
> mutator!
> *global-parameter*
> type-method (eg STRING-LENGTH)
> convert-type->type
> ...and now '/' -> 'with'.
>
> I think I've also seen %implementation-private%, but don't know how
> common that is.
>
> Scsh uses '/' as a sort of sub-name notation, so that OPEN/APPEND is
> the append flag for the OPEN-FILE procedure, and BUFPOL/LINE (for
> example) indicates line buffering in port.  I suppose these _can_ be
> pronounced 'with', but it's a bit of a stretch.
>
> The SISC manual mentions `By convention field accessors should be
> named with a leading colon (:) followed by the field name'.  That's
> specific to record types, yes?
>
> I have the vaguely paranoid impression that there's some set of
> conventions known to Everyone Else, passed on by some sort of
> apostolic succession.  Can anyone put me out of my misery?
>
> All the best,
>
> Norman
>
>
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