[PD] words for style guide: rewind and reset

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

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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