Re: [gtkmm] get method inconsistencies

[Murray Cumming <murrayc usa net>]

On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 23:47, Andreas Holzmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> while looking at the menu accelerator API I noticed that there are
> inconsistencies in get_*-method names and is_*-method names in the
> Gtkmm library. The Gtk+ library uses get_foo() function names where
> get functionality is implemented and is_foo() when boolean result are
> expected. The Gtkmm library uses same names for wrapped functions (of
> course), but is inconsistent when new methods are implemented. This is
> (I think) because STL uses a different naming scheme.
> 
> A quick scan through the sources:
> 
>         Gtkmm
> accelgroup.h    name()  -> get_name()
[snip]

What are these 2 columns? Is name() the current method name, and
get_name() your suggested method name?

Note that we use thing() rather than get_thing() when returning
references (or something that acts like a reference) instead of
by-value. For instance, with TreeModel::children().

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Murray Cumming
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