2009/6/8 Tarek Ziadé ziade.tarek@gmail.com:
Mmm, that's my frenglish, Sir ;) (If you see other weird stuff please let me know)
Well, it's better than my French, so who am I to complain? (As everyone knows, the English speak French by USING ENGLISH WORDS, BUT SHOUTING... :-))
So I guess "get_egg_info" is the shortest, proper form ?
That would be fine, yes. (Though I have a sneaking suspicion that I saw one place which had both _info and _infos, with the _infos form being the way of getting multiple copies of the things that _info gets one of. That's harder to deal with - I'll have a look and see if I can find the place I mean.)
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2009/6/8 Ronald Oussoren ronaldoussoren@mac.com:
The thingy we're getting is called an "EggInfo", which would IMHO mean that "get_egg_infos" is technically the correct name for something that returns a list of them. I'd interpret the singular form as a function that returns one EggInfo object.
That's the place I mean. But I'm not sure I like the idea of calling it an "EggInfo". I'll see if I can think of a better name (but not being familiar with the domain, I'm not sure I'll be able to). If it has to be an "EggInfo", then you shouldn't break it with underscores - so you have
get_egginfo - get an EggInfo object from wherever get_egginfos - get a list of EggInfo objects
(and make sure that the invented term EggInfo is defined somewhere before it gets used here).
Paul.