[Lemon-devel] Renaming basic classes

[Hegyi Peter]

Hi All,

according to my opinion the suggested changes are acceptable, they make 
simpler getting familiar with LEMON.
However I think that although these changes are well-explainable, we 
loose users by making not very-very important name-changes constantly.
It is important to follow naming-conventions, but we cannot force users 
to constantly rewrite their working programs only for the sake of more 
perfect naming conventions.
I think that name-changes should be done only in the case when the 
already existing names would be abuser furthermore (e.g. a new 
function/structure is added that rather deserves the already existing name)

I think that if we vote on changing names, we should name our methods 
and structures as similar to "concurrents" name-usage as possible. This 
would make simpler to start using our library after using a nother one.

Best regards,
       Peter

Balazs Dezso írta:
> Hi Developers
>
> The idea of renaming the main graph classes and items is quite urgent 
> question. The UEdge and BpUGraph names are involved and on some points the 
> naming conventions are not complete.
>
> After some discussions, we suggest the next rename mappings:
> Graph => Digraph
> UGraph => Graph
> BpUGraph => Bigraph
>
> Edge => Arc
> UEdge => Edge
>
> uEdge...() => edge...()
> aNode...() => anode...()
> bNode...() => bnode...()
>
> The source() and target() functions could be changed in the undirected graphs 
> to first() and second(), or anode() and bnode(). This second variant is very 
> close to the Bigraph interface, but there is not concrete meaning of the 
> order of the nodes.
>
> In my point of view the graph structures are quite stable but some solutions 
> should be revised. The extenders make the compile errors and warnings 
> unreadable but we do not have better solution. The handling of anodes and 
> bnodes also should be revised.
>
> Please comment this suggestions, if you agree with this proposals or if you 
> have some improvements or other opinion.
>
> Best regards, Balazs
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