# Poll: Naming a function in stdlib

**URL:** <https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/poll-naming-a-function-in-stdlib/1900>\
**Category:** Poll\
**Created:** [September 20, 2021, 6:59pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/poll-naming-a-function-in-stdlib/1900 "2021-09-20T18:59:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Carltoffel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/carltoffel/32/1680_2.png) [@Carltoffel](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/Carltoffel)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 6:27am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/poll-naming-a-function-in-stdlib/1900/21 "2021-09-24T06:27:28Z")

</div>

Consider this example:

```auto
use stdlib_stats_distribution_uniform, only: pdf_uniform
use stdlib_stats_distribution_gaussian, only: pdf_gaussian

```

You could argue to write it like this:

```auto
use stdlib_stats_distribution_uniform, only: pdf_uniform => pdf
use stdlib_stats_distribution_gaussian, only: pdf_gaussian => pdf

```

But this could lead to bad code, if no alias is used. For example if you see `pdf` somewhere in the code, you wouldn’t know to which distribution the `pdf` belongs.

[Previous page](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/poll-naming-a-function-in-stdlib/1900.md?page=1)