Nikodemus Siivola writes:
Miles, very good point. And somewhat embarassing as I've agitated for first-come, first-served paradigm myself... ;)
I think that we might add naming guidelines to the FAQ, along with the note that tey are not compulsory.
I think that's a good idea, one of the outcomes I'd like to see from common-lisp.net is some sort of standardization recommendations, somewhat analgous to GNU. This should of course be recommendations, but they should be made nonetheless.
For instance one of the great things about Lisp is Docstrings, but unfortunatley too many popular libraries have virtually no documentation, I'm amazed when I read the source of some libraries and barely find any comments. I think making a recommendation that all exported functions should be well documented is a food idea.
- As an alternative to the to above, various puns that insert "l" or "cl" somewhere in the name are also popular.
I always like pun names, so how about I change it to "bayescl" (pronounced "basil").