[GRASS5] Raster API names suggestion

[Roger Bivand]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Markus Neteler wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 05:47:50PM +1200, Hamish wrote:
> > > to improve the GRASS API name convention, I would like to 
> > > suggest to rename the raster functions from G_ to Rast_.
> > > A recursive find/sed should easily do the job.
> > 
> > 
> > can you give examples of which functions would be changed?
> 
> For example:
> 
>  G_put_raster_row ()		-> Rast_put_row ()
>  G_open_raster_new()		-> Rast_open_new ()
>  G_read_raster_timestamp ()	-> Rast_read_timestamp ()
>  

And the G__* () too as Rast__* (), I think. Would it be sensible to leave 
the 5.0 series as G_* (), and migrate the development series, that's what 
you are suggesting, isn't it? Then modules using the old forms would trip 
up, and alert the programmer to the change? Would G_* () stay for the 
non-raster functions in libgis - I think so?

Roger

> etc.
> 
> As far as I understand all these functions are historically
> called G_something, but IMHO this should be cleaned up
> to make the GRASS API more transparent to (new) programmers.
> 
> Markus
> 
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