Naming convention

[svallory]

Hey guys! Quick question...

Why are some functions camelCased while others are not? Like tryFunction/trycatch. Is there a rule behind it?

[kgryte]

@svallory Thanks for opening this discussion. Where are you referring to, specifically? Documentation, namespace?

Looking at the docs and namespace, it does look like we are inconsistent here:

stdlib/lib/node_modules/@stdlib/utils/lib/index.js

Line 1769 in 7c17308

setReadOnly( utils, 'trycatch', require( '@stdlib/utils/try-catch' ) );

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In this particular case, I don't think we have a rationale for diverging conventions. I'd be inclined to update trythen and trycatch to tryThen and tryCatch, as this seems preferable to tryfunction and tryrequire.

[svallory]

Great! Sticking to a convention helps newcomers a lot!

I was reading the documentation, and noticed there are several functions that don't follow the camelCase pattern and instead are all lowercase. safeintmin is another example.

There were enough that I thought there could be a reason. Even when there is, may I suggest adding aliases?

For example, if safeintmin is all in lowercase due to some historical or contextual reason, just add a alias safeIntMin