[wp-hackers] prefix vs postfix - pros and cons

[Mike Little]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 20:58, Haluk Karamete <halukkaramete at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thank you for catching that. I did not know about buddypress's bp_.
>
> but, I was asking in general, not particularly in wp. The library and
> the functionality I'm trying to build should work also in drupal,
> joomla etc.
>
> In general, what are the advantages of prefixing the function names as
> opposed to postfixing them?
>
>
An obvious one is sorting. Any IDE or other tool that lists functions, or
automatically completes your typing based on what you typed so far would
have an advantage with a prefix. All the related functions will be together.

Mike
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