[PD] words for style guide: rewind and reset

marius schebella marius.schebella at gmail.com
Wed Mar 25 22:33:55 CET 2009


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"...
what about open vs. read vs. load?
marius.




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