[fetter-devel] belated mentoring

[Luis Oliveira]

On 13/set/2005, at 18:15, Kenny Tilton wrote:
> Just noticed foreign-alloc (while looking for foreign-allocate <g>), 
> which reminds me of Tilton's Law of Abbreviation: Only abbreviate 
> names (a) longer than six characters (b) where a reasonable 
> abbreviation saves more than half the characters. Exceptions are made 
> where a well-known abbreviation exists, such as serial-no instead of 
> serial-number (number having only six characters).

foreign-allocate (clisp), allocate-foreign-object and malloc 
(lispworks), foreign-alloc. Hmm.. I like them all.

But James is the guy in charge of API naming. :-)

I'm all for changing and picking the Right Names anyway. This is the 
time to do it.

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