Re: Observations relating to r15828.

Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:

> On Aug 19, 2005, at 12:48 PM, Philip Martin wrote:
>
>> Well, I haven't done much Subversion coding recently, but working on
>> r15828 leads me to make the following observations:
>>
>> 1. svn_string_compare
>>
>> What a !#*%!# awful name! Does it behave like strcmp or is it one
>> of those new-fangled functions that do the opposite? I had to
>> resort to reading the documentation. Bleah!
>
> New-fangled? It's as old as Subversion itself! IIRC, svn_string.h
> was the very first thing we wrote when we started coding back in
> summer of 2000. :-)

While strcmp dates from the last millennium :) In hindsight,
svn_string_is_equal (or _are_equal) would have been a better name for
a function with this behaviour.

-- 
Philip Martin
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