[Sc-devel] server naming conventions cleanup?

["Ross Bencina" <rossb-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Guys

It's pretty difficult to make a clean description of scsynth for the book 
when there is a lot of apparent inconsistency in naming conventions (unless 
I'm missing something). I've highlighted the most glaring below:

- Inconsistent use of SC_ prefix: sometimes it's there, sometimes it isn't. 
This applies to both source files and headers.. often one or the other uses 
SC_ but not both. I can provide a full table of these if necessary. At a 
minimum, in terms of types, I'd recommend  removing SC from 
SC_BufReadCommand, SC_SequencedCommand and SC_LibCmd. All other types with 
SC_ are generic system object (like SC_Lock) which could easily collide if 
we removed SC. The alternative is to be add SC_ everywhere or remove it 
everywhere

- Now for the big one: I'd like to see Graph renamed to Synth, and GraphDef 
renamed to SynthDef. There's 400 occurences of "Graph" in the source code, 
but the IOUgens seem to be the only plugins which reference the name.

- The other main domain entity with an alias is SndBuf which is generally 
referred to as Buffer outside the server implementation. I can see why 
renaming that may be less palatable.

Thoughts?

Ross.