On Jan 21, 2011, at 8:43 AM, Erik Winkels wrote:
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 07:48:50AM -0500, Daniel Weinreb wrote:
Our utility library calls it "strcat". I think string-concat is probaby better.
I picked 'strcat' as a nod to C, but I wholeheartedly fall into the Dave Moon camp: more descriptive is better, at least for any exported names, almost always.
Dave Moon established the general ethic on the Lisp machine of using longer, clearer names in general.
I generally prefer more descriptive (and hence usually longer) names but for this specific case I settled on "mkstr" from Paul Graham's "On Lisp" years ago, because this function is used so often and many times used inline.
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