On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 5:32 PM Dan Eble wrote:
> On Jul 7, 2020, at 19:20, Carl Sorensen wrote:
> >
> > The only time I would like a member function of a class to have a verb
> name is when it causes a side effect.
> >
> > When the job of a function is to return a result that can be used
> elsew
On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 5:32 PM Dan Eble wrote:
> On Jul 7, 2020, at 19:20, Carl Sorensen wrote:
> >
> > The only time I would like a member function of a class to have a verb
> name is when it causes a side effect.
> >
> > When the job of a function is to return a result that can be used
> elsew
On Jul 7, 2020, at 19:20, Carl Sorensen wrote:
>
> The only time I would like a member function of a class to have a verb name
> is when it causes a side effect.
>
> When the job of a function is to return a result that can be used elsewhere,
> to me the goal is a result, and hence, it is a no
On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 5:05 PM Dan Eble wrote:
> On Jul 4, 2020, at 11:27, Dan Eble wrote:
> >
> > Ugh. I'm working on the outlet/context change now (involving lots of
> rebasing of my work in progress). I'll probably be unwilling to do more
> than that immediately, but regardless, I should le
On Jul 4, 2020, at 11:27, Dan Eble wrote:
>
> Ugh. I'm working on the outlet/context change now (involving lots of
> rebasing of my work in progress). I'll probably be unwilling to do more than
> that immediately, but regardless, I should let others weigh in on get_foo()
> v. foo() first.
I
On Jul 4, 2020, at 11:15, David Kastrup wrote:
>
> While you are at it: I don't see that there is lots of sense in having
> get_context () for some classes and context () for others. Or
> get_parent_context () for some and get_daddy_context () for others.
> Generally the get_ prefix seems a bit
Dan Eble writes:
> virtual Context *get_outlet () const;
> virtual void set_context (Context *);
> . . .
> void init_context (Music *, Context *);
> . . .
> void substitute_outlet (Context *from, Context *to);
>
> This is driving me nuts. Is anyone attached to the term "o
virtual Context *get_outlet () const;
virtual void set_context (Context *);
. . .
void init_context (Music *, Context *);
. . .
void substitute_outlet (Context *from, Context *to);
This is driving me nuts. Is anyone attached to the term "outlet"? If so,
please suggest ho
