[ZODB-Dev] Re: oids, numbers, hex and 8-byte strings

[Florent Guillaume]

Tim Peters wrote:
> [Chris Withers]
> 
>>>...
>>>The alias I suggested is purely to mirror that of the oid_repr function,
>>>and I would include it directly above of below the oid_repr function
>>>with bigger documentation clues for blind people like me ;-)
>>>
>>>Does anyone have any non-pedantic reasons for not including this alias?
> 
> 
> [Dieter Maurer]
> 
>>The name is far less than optimal.
>>
>>   How about something more informative such as "oid_to_hex"
>>   and "oid_from_hex"?
> 
> 
> I don't want to see any renaming, or aliasing, until the docs (comments &
> docstrings) are clear.  I expect that when the docs are clear, the current
> perceived need for new names will go away.  Contrarily, so long as the docs
> remain inadequate, adding new names would just give us additional poorly
> documented function names.  ("What's oid_from_hex?  I always used p64 for
> that."  "Really?  Let me look ... ah, OK, they're two names for the same
> function."  "Eh?!  Why two names?"  "Beats me ... not sure what they do
> either -- the docstring sucks"  "Par for the course, then." <0.5 wink>)

Tim, let this thread die. p64 is perfectly all right, it's been 
mentionned many times on his list, and any cursory search in the code 
reveals it.

Florent



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