Clojure API exposes types to the user (Agent, Ref, Var, ...), so it is benefical to see on the first glance whether the name is of a type or interface/protocol. If the API would be built solely on the protocols/interfaces, those prefixes would be of less use.
Moreover, I think that names of types should be nouns (e.g. Atom) and names of protocols should be adjectives/verbs (e.g. ICounted), with the exception of protocols which represent an abstract type (e.g. IPersistentList) Jozef On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 6:40 PM, Bobby Eickhoff <beickh...@gmail.com> wrote: > What might be an advantage to using something like the I-prefix? At first > glance, this appears to be unbeneficial hungarian notation. > > Aesthetically, this seems backwards (to me). I want interfaces and > protocols to have the most readable names. I'm willing to concede on less > readable names for concrete implementations. Many implementations and > participants will even be anonymous. > > On Friday, September 5, 2014 5:52:48 AM UTC-4, Dave Sann wrote: >> >> I saw a comment on protocol naming here: >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/clojure/A4xIitQWloU/6E4xHDTPPaIJ >> >> there is nothing in the coding standards: >> http://dev.clojure.org/display/community/Library+Coding+Standards (are these >> maintained?) >> >> is there any sensible consensus on good naming convention? >> >> IBlah >> PBlah >> BlahP >> Blah >> ...other >> >> ...doesn't matter >> >> Dave > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
