Martin, Can we take this as a decision? So far there is no objection. It must be changed in tools and appLang, therefore, I need a clear decision for appLang (as chapter author). Please tell. Best regards Rolf ----- Original Message -----

From: "William Gropp" <[email protected]> To: "Martin Schulz" <[email protected]>, "Main MPI Forum mailing list" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 6:11:41 PM Subject: Re: [Mpi-forum] MPI_INFO_GET_ENV naming question I prefer MPI_INFO_ENV . Using GET in the name will be confusing.

Bill

William Gropp Director, Parallel Computing Institute Deputy Director for Research Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor of Computer Science University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

On Jul 19, 2012, at 12:25 PM, Schulz, Martin wrote:

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Hi all,

During the chapter review for Chapter 8, the environment chapter, a question came up at the forum, which we thought requires wider feedback.

Ticket 313 introduced an info object into MPI 3.0 that allows users to query the environment, which is called MPI_INFO_GET_ENV. This name, however, contains a verb and hence follows the naming structure of an MPI function, but is a constant. Hence, should we really go with this name or should we rename this into a name without a verb, like MPI_INFO_ENV, to avoid confusion? People in the room were leaning towards the latter and this is clearly ticket 0 at this point, but we wanted to ask to make sure there is no unintended impact with that change.

Comments? Thanks,

Martin

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