2.8.2.3 Naming conventions

This library contains a large number of procedures, but they follow a consistent naming scheme, and are consistent with the conventions developed in SRFI-1. The names are composed of smaller lexemes in a regular way that exposes the structure and relationships between the procedures. This should help the programmer to recall or reconstitute the name of the particular procedure that he needs when writing his own code. In particular:

• Procedures whose names end in -ci are case–insensitive variants.
• Procedures whose names end in ! are side–effecting variants. What values these procedures return is usually not specified.
• The order of common parameters is consistent across the different procedures.
• Left/right/both directionality: procedures that have left/right directional variants use the following convention:

  Direction	Suffix
  left-to-right	none
  right-to-left	-right
  both	-both

  This is a general convention that was established in SRFI-1. The value of a convention is proportional to the extent of its use.