10 sec poll - please reply!

Andrew Cooper andrew at nospam.example.com
Wed Nov 21 17:24:06 EST 2012


On 21/11/2012 07:01, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:35:27 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
> 
>> And yet, trivial though it may seem, function naming in a permanent API
>> is pretty important. Threads like this can be the difference between
>> coherent and useful APIs and veritable piles of excrement.
> 
> 
> "There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation 
> and naming things." -- Phil Karlton
> 

"counting" is missing from that list of two hard problems.

~Andrew




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