[PD] words for style guide: rewind and reset
Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans at eds.org
Fri Mar 27 00:52:56 CET 2009
On Mar 25, 2009, at 5:33 PM, marius schebella wrote:
> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> Hey,
>> I just went thru a bunch of interfaces and noticed a good pattern
>> in wording. I propose to make this part of the style guide:
>> rewind - go back to the beginning of a chunk of data
>> (used in: textfile, binfile, msgfile, etc.)
>> reset - clear the data from a container; or, go back to the initial
>> state
>> (used in: zexy/index, cyclone/MouseState, maxlib, etc.)
>
> "reset" should not be confused with "clear"...
Hmm, what's the difference? I think I remember seeing [clear( and
thinking that it should ahve been [reset(.
> what about open vs. read vs. load?
That probably should be documented. Make a proposal!
.hc
>
> marius.
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