Michael G Schwern writes: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 09:11:06AM -0000, Clayton, Nik wrote: > > Name suggestions gratefully received. I wanted something short, to make > > it easier than "ok(1 == 1, "");", and ok2() fits in with the historical > > naming of functions like wait(), wait2(), wait3(), wait4(), and so on. > > You can almost always come up with something better than just numbering > the functions.
The numbers in wait3 and wait4 actually have the same source as the 2 in dup2. It's not a lame 'revision number' or anything like that, although the /\d$/ functions were invented later. Instead, the number represents how many arguments the function takes: wait3 is a 3-argument wait, dup2 is a 2-argument dup, and so on. This also explains why there's no wait2 function. If you were to apply the same naming scheme here, you'd therefore actually get C<ok1(1 == 1)>. -- Aaron Crane
