Is it imperative to restrict the choices to the current nomenclature? If you're finding it difficult to pick from among them, perhaps a glance through Dictionary's thesaurus will help. Something like cede, yield, or relinquish? and for the counterpart perhaps manage, contain, hold or another synonym?
Alfonso Guerra Founder/CEO Apokalypse Software Corp. (626) 667-4285 On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 7:22 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <m...@apple.com> wrote: > > On Sep 5, 2016, at 3:30 PM, Dan Bernstein <m...@apple.com> wrote: > > > On Sep 5, 2016, at 10:13 AM, Darin Adler <da...@apple.com> wrote: > > Hi folks. > > WebKit has some critical functions that involve asking an object to give > up ownership of something so the caller can take ownership. > > In the C++ standard library itself, this is called move, as in std::move. > > In WebKit smart pointers, we call this operation release, as in > RefPtr::releaseNonNull and String::releaseImpl. > > In WebKit collections, we call this operation take, as in HashMap::take > and ExceptionOr::takeReturnValue. > > The release vs. take terminology is distracting to my eyes. The verb > “take" states what the caller wishes to do, and the verb “release” states > what the caller wants the collection or smart pointer to do. > > > This can be addressed by renaming take to give (hey, it’s right there in > the subject). > > > It's logical but reads perhaps a little strangely: > > Value& = map.give(key) > X* = x_ref.give() > > - Maciej > > > My first thought was be to rename the take functions to use the word > release instead, but I fear it might make them harder to understand instead > of easier and clearly it would make them longer. > > Does anyone have other ideas on how to collapse WebKit project terminology > down so we don’t have three different single words that are used to mean > almost the same thing? > > > Rename release to give, too? > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev > >
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