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Re: Library naming standards

To: Neel Krishnaswami <address@hidden>, address@hidden
Subject: Re: Library naming standards
From: Ken Dickey <address@hidden>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 08:44:11 -0700
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On Friday 25 October 2002 06:31 am, Neel Krishnaswami wrote:
...
> Speaking of, I recall reading that the authors of both T and Common
> Lisp had an explicit naming and argument order policy for standard
> library functions. Does anyone know if copies of those policies are on
> the web anywhere? It seems like it would be a useful to look at those
> while designing a standard library for one's own language.

The T Manual has notes on naming conventions (and much else of interest).  
Look at sections 1.2 and 1.3 of the manual:
 pdf:	http://library.readscheme.org/papers/T_manual.pdf
 text:	ftp://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/scheme-repository/imp/t/manual.gz

BTW: http://library.readscheme.org has a great collection of online papers 
relating to Scheme.

Cheers,
-KenD

References:
- Re: Scriptometer: measuring the ease of SOP (Script Oriented Programming) of programming languages
  - From: Dave Long <dl@silcom.com>
- Re: Scriptometer: measuring the ease of SOP (Script Oriented Programming) of programming languages
  - From: Daniel Weinreb <DLWeinreb@attbi.com>
- Library naming standards
  - From: Neel Krishnaswami <neelk@alum.mit.edu>

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