Check validity of verb.() function names about tidytable HOT 2 CLOSED

Hi!

I'm flattered you think about me for an advanced question :).
I think it's fine. About the dot, as far as I know :

• dots in the middle of the name are often discouraged because there is an ambiguity with S3 methods but it doesn't apply to your case
• I think these can however fire the autocomplete in your ide, but i don't think it will impact the experience that much
• dots at the start of the name will make your variable not listed by ls (by default), so should not be done without a good reason, parameter names are ok.
• two dots at the start of the name should be be avoided because (I think, maybe I'm wrong) they're sometimes used when you need a variable in your environment but make sure they don't mask a realistic variable name, so better stay off those to avoid weird issues.

The other issue is that . doesn't say anything other than "it's a variant", so when you see select_, select and select. it can be confusing, but on the other hand it makes things readable so I think it's a reasonable choice.

Do you know about tidyfast ? I never really used it much but it seems to do the same kind of things as your package, and had the same function names before you changed yours.

For this kind of issues i'd typically tweet, but pinging we on github is fine too.

Good luck in any case. It seems like people like it a lot already!

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Thanks for the response, I really appreciate it. Those points all make sense. I think I'll move forward with the verb.() syntax.

As for tidyfast - I contributed dt_pivot_wider() & dt_pivot_longer() to tidyfast a while back when both of our packages used the dt_ prefix . (Since that time I switched my package to using an rlang backend and ended up remaking both functions for my package as well.)

One of the reasons I wanted to switch to verb.() was because a few packages seem to have adopted the dt_ style (like maditr and tidyfast), and I wanted to figure out a way to have a different syntax that was still recognizable to tidyverse users.

Thanks again for your help!

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