[sorry for the formatting]
I immediately recognized perhaps_blah() as meaning to conditionally determine 
if blah is needed then do it. I've been using maybe_blah() for years, though 
not often.
YMMV,

..mark

Dec 16, 2025 4:11:26 AM Corinna Vinschen <[email protected]>:

> On Dec 16 10:31, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> 2. What purpose is the name `perhaps_suffix()` possibly trying to convey?
>>    I know naming is hard, but... `perhaps_suffix()`? Really?
> 
> The function is named thus since before 2000, when Cygwin was imported
> into the public CVS repo ;)
> 
> 
> Corinna

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