<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Per Hedeland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:per@hedeland.org" target="_blank">per@hedeland.org</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Well, some of the original authors were (are) native English speakers:-)<br>
- but in any case, what's wrong with "info"? Some process, or the VM,<br>
sent us a message - seems like a reasonable assumption that there is<br>
some relevant information in it, but that's pretty much the only<br>
assumption that can be made.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>But that is what _any_ function does, right? You get a message, that contains some data. You could have called the callback "do_stuff" for that matter!</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Maybe the OP has a term in mind, that would be better at conveying the<br>
meaning "any other stuff that someone sends us"?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, I would expect a name more in the line of:</div><div><br></div><div> handle_rest</div><div> handle_internal</div><div> handle_timeout (split interface for the timeout use-case)</div><div> ...</div><div><br></div><div>Something that resonates closer to "this is called for any other message than a call or cast".</div><div><br></div><div>Hey, not bikeshedding the callback name at all uh? but was wondering if it could have had a historic path from a narrower use-case that then widened with time. Or maybe some rationale for the name that I could be missing.</div><div><br></div><div>If there is no such historic background... that is fine, curiosity solved :).</div></div></div></div>