[svn.haxx.se] · SVN Dev · SVN Users · SVN Org · TSVN Dev · TSVN Users · Subclipse Dev · Subclipse Users · this month's index

Re: Naming of function versions

From: Travis P <svn_at_castle.fastmail.fm>
Date: 2004-03-18 15:37:59 CET

On Mar 18, 2004, at 7:45 AM, D.J. Heap wrote:

> Nuutti Kotivuori wrote:
> [snip]
>> No, I don't think you have. I just haven't seen any project where
>> deprecated functions would have not disappeared in a following major
>> release, but instead become the supported functions again. Also, I
>> don't believe I have seen the something2 naming for new functions
>> anywhere. So I would not call those methods conventional. But that may
>> ofcourse be just me.
>> -- Naked
>
> FWIW, the something2 naming is all over the place in MS API's --
> especially COM interfaces. They also used to use somethingEx, but
> mostly stopped doing that as there is nowhere to go after
> that...somethingExEx?
>
> Hardly makes it a standard, of course, but at least it's not
> unprecedented.
>
> DJ

It's certainly not unprecedented. Using Apple's Toolbox library on
GS/OS (Apple IIgs) circa 1987, NewWindow2 was introduced with much more
functionality than NewWindow. I would not be surprised if the
Macintosh Toolbox had the same type of thing though I wasn't
programming Macs at that time but the GS/OS Toolbox was clearly highly
related to the Mac version. Both continued to be supported.

-Travis

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@subversion.tigris.org
Received on Thu Mar 18 15:42:37 2004

This is an archived mail posted to the Subversion Dev mailing list.

This site is subject to the Apache Privacy Policy and the Apache Public Forum Archive Policy.