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[XOM-interest] Node.howManyChildren(): getChildCount()

From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>
To: Laurent Bihanic <laurent.bihanic AT atosorigin.com>, XOM-interest <XOM-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [XOM-interest] Node.howManyChildren(): getChildCount()
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:09:48 -0400

At 10:33 AM +0200 9/19/02, Laurent Bihanic wrote:

- Node.howManyChildren(): getChildCount() would have been more intuitive to Java programmers.

Possibly. howManyChildren is definitely one of my least favorite method names in XOM. However getChildCount doesn't seem too intuitive either. Is there precedent for it?

Can anyone suggest a better alternative? size() doesn't really work here because that could be interpreted in too many ways.
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