Scripting style: Verbs in function names

[Mike Kerner]

Do they not teach sentence diagramming to geeks any more?  If you can't
diagram it, you can't use it in xtalk.  That's the rule.  Obey.

On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 8:27 AM, Keith Martin <thatkeith at mac.com> wrote:

> On 3 Nov 2016, at 23:00, Devin Asay wrote:
>
> I think the best function names are the ones that “read” naturally in a
>> statement
>>
>
> And that, in a nutshell, is one of the beautiful things about the xTalk
> language(s). Natural readability is important, so wherever this makes sense
> it, rather than generically verbifying, should be the guiding principle.
>
> k
>
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