API Restructuring

[Trevor Norris]

I have been wanting to restructure the jStat API, and possibly file structure, for a while now. The current calls have either been created off the cuff, or taken from various other languages (e.g. R).

One major thing would be to capitalize the first letter in all the distribution methods, since each will return a new jStat Distribution instance.

Thoughts?

[Tushar Gupta]

 I don't understand how capitalizing the first letter would help ?

Besides, I am wondering about why the codes at jStat.org and jStat@github are not merged ?

[Trevor Norris]

On Thursday, July 12, 2012 5:07:07 AM UTC-7, Tushar Gupta wrote:

 I don't understand how capitalizing the first letter would help ?

Two reasons. It will prevent namespace collisions (e.g. beta function right now is "betafn", because "beta" is taken by the distribution method. And it's better programming practice to make methods that return a new instance start with a capital letter.

 

Besides, I am wondering about why the codes at jStat.org and jStat@github are not merged ?

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