From: Godmar Back (gback@cs.utah.edu)
Date: Sun Dec 20 1998 - 20:36:33 EST
I personally like the "makeBlabla" names. I also think they're consistent,
in that makeBlabla *always* returns a Blabla* pointer, but almost never
takes a Blabla pointer as its first argument.
Functions named BlablaFooBar, on the other hand, *always* take a
Blabla pointer as their first argument and operate on it.
The former kind is a creator or factory function, the latter kind
is what you would call a method in Java or C++.
Every class has a set of member functions, and a set of creator
functions.
- Godmar
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