[racket-dev] consistency in names and signatures

along the consistency in function naming vein:
file-name-from-path versus filename-extension.  is "filename" 1 word or 2?
 i prefer 1.

even more tangential, why isn't file-name-from-path "path->filename"
instead?  or even "basename"?

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 08:07, David T. Pierson <dtp at mindstory.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:44:35AM -0400, David T. Pierson wrote:
> > (Presumably if equally concise names that better reflected function
> > signatures were available, they would have been used in the first
> > place.)
>
> Sorry for the double post.  I should have added "equally lucid" along
> with "equally concise".
>
> Perhaps what I should have asked was simply whether there exist names
> that better indicate function signatures but are still good in all or
> most other important aspects, and whether it is worth breaking
> compatibility for such.
>
> David
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