Interesting. I thought historical policy was universally against the word "get" in function names. I guess you're suggesting that "get" should only be applied to function names which have an out-argument?
-eric On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Darin Adler <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 4, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Ryosuke Niwa wrote: > >> It came to my attention that some people are using raw pointers to pass >> out-arguments (e.g. bug 69366). In my understanding, we use pass by >> reference for out arguments when they have to be modified in callees. >> >> If there's no objection, I'm going to file a bug & upload a patch to state >> this explicitly in the style guideline. > > If it’s not already in there, I think you might also want to mention the > related rule that encourages the use of the word “get” at the starts of the > names of these functions with out arguments. > > -- Darin > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
