<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 4, 2016, at 9:07 AM, Charles Constant <<a href="mailto:charles@charlesism.com" class="">charles@charlesism.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">> Even though, this code makes sense:<br class="">><br class="">> * a.moveTo( b )*<br class="">><br class="">> I'd prefer to see this:<br class="">><br class=""></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">> * a.move( toPoint: b )*<br class=""></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">The difference between this and the first example isn't a preposition;<br class="">it's a (IMO needless) noun. What point (NPI) are you trying to<br class="">illustrate?</blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It looks like I didn't express myself well enough. My point is, it's not entirely a "needless noun" in the context of an actual project. </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Yes, but you phrased it as illustrating something about prepositions.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">In isolation, if your project only has that one function, it's needless. But, when it's sitting there along with dozens of other functions and methods, it's nice if you can predict which the argument labels you're looking for will be called. Because, with my suggestion "toPoint" is "toPoint" is "toPoint" everywhere and with no exceptions. </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Why isn't "to" more predictable than "toPoint?" It's certainly more universal.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:13px" class="">FWIW, your personal style notwithstanding, we *are* standardizing on </span><span style="font-size:13px" class="">camelCase</span></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">oK, no more snake case. ;)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div>
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