[Development] Signal naming convention

[Max Paperno]

On 2/28/2020 2:37 PM, Max Paperno wrote:
> 
> I humbly suggest, in general, that a signal name could be prefixed with 
> "sig", "sig_", "signal" or "signal_".  "sigEmptied()" doesn't look 
> horrible IMHO, and should work semantically with any verb. Using 
> prefixes to signify meaning already has some precedence in C/C++ world 
> as well. And lastly even "dumb" syntax highlighters could pick up on 
> that pretty easily (even w/out access to, or needing to parse, any 
> header files to determine what is a signal), though of course there 
> could be *"false positives"* for any other words starting with "sig" (like 
> "significantElements()" :) ).

Sorry, "significantElements()" is a bad example of course. The "sig" 
would need to be followed by upper case (or "[nal][_]") and be called 
w/out a return value (on a new line or at least "standalone" within an 
[implied] block like "if (foo) sigEmptied();"). So actually false 
positives are probably not very likely.

-Max