Re: JSON Function Bike Shedding

2013/2/19 Petr Jelinek <pjmodos(at)pjmodos(dot)net>:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pgsql-hackers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org [mailto:pgsql-hackers-
>> owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Robert Haas
>> Sent: 19 February 2013 15:05
>> To: Merlin Moncure
>> Cc: David E. Wheeler; PostgreSQL-development Hackers
>> > The argument for removing json_ prefix is that when function behaviors
>> > are unambiguously controlled by the arguments, decorating the function
>> > name to match the input argument is unnecessary verbosity.
>>
>> I've come to value greppability of source code pretty highly. I think
> that
>> some of the points you raise are valid, but in my (minority) opinion
>> overloading creates more problems than it solves. You're not going to
>> convince me that get() is *ever* a good name for a function - you might as
>> well call it thing() or foo() for all the useful information that name
> conveys.
>
> Let me join the minority here, +1

me too +1

Pavel

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