The style guide Jack mentions is not really about the /library's/ name, but rather about the data type of the main (usually the first) argument, as saide. For example you could have a library called `my-wonderful-lib' that experts `vector-splendify', which takes a vector as its first argument.
On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 10:26 PM, Jack Firth <jackhfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > The Racket Style Guide[1] has some notes about this in the Textual > Matters: Names[2] section: > > > Use meaningful names. The Lisp convention is to use full English words > separated by dashes. Racket code benefits from the same convention. > > Note that _ (the underline character) is also classified as bad > Racketeering within names. It is an acceptable placeholder in syntax > patterns, match patterns, and parameters that don’t matter. > > Another widely used convention is to prefix a function name with the > data type of the main argument. This convention generalizes the > selector-style naming scheme of struct. > > So yes, if you were to write a `money` library many Racketeers would > expect it to export functions like `money-deposit` and `money-convert`. > This has the advantage that searching "money" in Scribble will give a quick > list of the exports of "money", since they'll all have the prefix. This > isn't a hard and fast rule, merely a guideline. > > [1] http://docs.racket-lang.org/style/index.html > [2] http://docs.racket-lang.org/style/Textual_Matters.html#% > 28part._names%29 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+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 "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
