Re: Bikeshedding the cstringLength name?
Viktor Dukhovni <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 08:09:01PM -0800, Edward Kmett wrote:
> [...Sound argument for consistency of style...]
>
> Names matching primitives modulo a hash is pretty universal as well.
Just on this one point, the reason I contemplated something different
than `cstringLength` and was led to `bytestring` as a possible model,
was because the primop is differs subtly from the new lifted function
by being "pure" (and is then only safe for compiled-in constants).
Since the proposed lifted variant changes not only the levity but also
the purity, I thought it worth asking whether that could be a source of
confusion, with some users accidentally misusing the primop, expecting
only a difference in levity. But likely I let my imagination run wild.
The proposed name is fine.
--
Viktor.
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