hyphens in function names

[Mark Volkmann]

Is there a rule of thumb to apply when deciding whether to separate
multiple words in a function name with hyphens?
I can't detect a pattern in how this was decided for many provided functions.
Here are some examples that use hyphens: dotimes, gensyms, macroexpand
Here are some that don't: drop-last, find-doc, lazy-cat

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R. Mark Volkmann
Object Computing, Inc.

[Stuart Sierra]

On Nov 30, 7:22 am, "Mark Volkmann" <r.mark.volkm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a rule of thumb to apply when deciding whether to separate
> multiple words in a function name with hyphens?
> I can't detect a pattern in how this was decided for many provided functions.
> Here are some examples that use hyphens: dotimes, gensyms, macroexpand
> Here are some that don't: drop-last, find-doc, lazy-cat

Hi Mark,
There's no hard-and-fast rule, but a lot of it comes from Common Lisp,
like gensyms and macroexpand. There are a bunch of CL naming
conventions at <http://www.cliki.net/Naming%20conventions> but these
are not used entirely consistently in Clojure.

-Stuart Sierra

[Mark Volkmann]

Perhaps the rule of thumb should be to include hyphens in function
names to separate multiple words UNLESS omitting them makes the name
match one from another Lisp variant.