> On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 04:44:59PM +0200, Waldemar Zurowski wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 21:34:50 +0100 > > Tim Bunce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Yet is't a horribly long name. Why don't you change "connect" into > > > > "connect_to_database", "prepare" into "prepare_statement" and "do" into > > > > "prepare_and_execute_statement"? > > > > > > Huffman coding. > > > > Well - I personally like name 'finish'. It is doing what I want (in current context of course.) It is finishing a query. > > Trouble is, thousands of people (literally) think it finishes/deallocates > the statement handle and/or that they need to call it after fetch loops. > > Tim. >
I sometimes need "finish" to prevent Oracle from whining that I havn't read all the rows I've selected. How about "discard", or "no_more", or "enough_already", or "thank_you_thats_enough"? :-) Thinking about it, "enough" seems a reasonable suggestion! -- David Adams Computing Services Southampton University
