[plt-scheme] naming convention for structure constructor vs. wrapper?

I usually use build-XXX in that case (esp. when it is a procedure).

Robby

At Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:45:04 -0400, Doug Orleans wrote:
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> I often find myself defining a wrapper around a structure constructor,
> either a procedure that takes a different number of arguments (e.g. to
> provide default values) or a macro that provides some syntactic sugar
> for construction (or both).  I want to provide both the wrapper and
> the underlying constructor, so I have to come up with a new name for
> one or the other.  Is there a naming convention for this pattern?
> I've been renaming the `make-foo' constructor to `make-foo*' and then
> naming the wrapper `make-foo', but I'm thinking this is an abuse of
> the `*' convention (which is already somewhat abused: in the case of
> `let*' or `send*' it implies serial repetition, whereas in
> `syntax-case*' and `class*' it implies extra arguments).  I was
> thinking of using `foo' for the wrapper if it's a macro (and keeping
> `make-foo' as the constructor procedure), similar to `generic'
> vs. `make-generic', but then this clashes with the syntax binding
> produced by `define-struct', which I want to keep so that users can
> define subtypes (or use match, etc).  Any other ideas?
> 
> --dougo at place.org