Opinions: API wrapping, how close to original API should you stay?

[Andy Armstrong]

On 4 Oct 2006, at 20:40, Nik Clayton wrote:
> At the moment, I'm leaning towards the first.  It's simple and  
> regular, but it does mean that the programmer has to translate in  
> their head from the original API documentation.
>
> The second lessens that translation slightly, but then the symbol  
> inconsistently uses CamelCase and '_' to separate components.
>
> That last one, to my eyes, just looks ugly.

The first - by exposing the API in perl you're already making it  
perlish - so you should use perlish naming conventions. The mapping  
is regular between perl names and api names - so it shouldn't be too  
huge a leap for anyone.

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Andy Armstrong, hexten.net