On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 06:30:37PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> > On 02/22/2012 04:29 PM, Marc Munro wrote:
> >> As the developer of veil I feel marginally qualified to bikeshed here:
> >> how about "silent"? A silent function being one that will not blab.
>
> > I also made this suggestion later in the day.
>
> SILENT isn't a bad idea. It seems to lead the mind in the right
> direction, or at least not encourage people to guess the wrong meaning.
+1 for SILENT. I also liked Kevin's suggestion of DISCREET; it comes closer
than SILENT to denoting the property in question, but it also carries a social
undertone that feels out of place in a software function declaration.
