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

Because the name "make-" might make people think it actually was a 
maker.

Robby

On Jun 30, 2004, at 9:32 PM, Matthias Felleisen wrote:

> Why not use a module or a unit to re-export
> the thing with the right name: make-foo
>
> (module foo mzscheme
>
>   (define-struct foo (i))
>
>   (define (create-foo i)
>     (if (number? i) (make-foo i) (error))
>
>   (provide (rename create-foo make-foo)))
>
> Or do it as a macro. Look at Chez's define-structure, too.
>
> -- Matthias
>
>
> On Jun 30, 2004, at 7:33 PM, Robby Findler wrote:
>
>>   For list-related administrative tasks:
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>>
>> 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:
>>>   For list-related administrative tasks:
>>>   http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme
>>>
>>> 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
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>
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