Re: strbuf API

From: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
Date: Sep 4, 2007, 01:52 UTC
Message-ID: <buobqcjrycl.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070903084610.GA21759@artemis.corp>

Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes:

>   For the record, I dislike the fact that bstring pullutes the b*
> namespace, whereas it should use bstr as a prefix everywhere, and some
> functions (like bstrcpy, that should definitely be named bstrdup) are
> really named the _wrong_ way

Yeah, I got the same impression. There's an odd "accumulated haphazardly over time" feel to much of it.

[One thing I found especially weird is the way the "core" interface uses lowercase names, but the "aux" interfaces all seem to use StUDlyCaPS...]

-Miles

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