[Ns-bugs] [Bug 146] Ipv4Address API cleanup

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------- Comment #4 from mathieu.lacage at sophia.inria.fr  2008-03-18 11:13 -------
> > > This patch proposes to remove the "HostOrder" postfix of the name of getters
> > > and setters in Ipv4Address.  Instead, all Getters and Setters are host order;
> > > if we introduce network order getters and setters, we could perhaps qualify
> > > those with the "NetworkOrder" postfix such as "SetNetworkOrder" (but presently
> > > there are no such methods).
> > 
> > I think that the long method name is actually nice and descriptive so, I find
> > it weird to make the method names less descriptive.
> > 
> 
> Yes, it is more descriptive, but longer to type, and e.g. the constructor
> assumes host order without such a qualifier.  All of the getters and setters
> are host order; we have network byte order methods but they are called
> Serialize and Deserialize and operate on a byte array.

ok. That is a good point.


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