Poll: Naming a function in stdlib

[Beliavsky]

@certik

I guess using uniform_pdf to be consistent with SciPy’s uniform.pdf:

scipy.stats.uniform — SciPy v1.11.4 Manual

I don’t know. I would have to see all the functions. Generally I prefer if the first part is what there is less of. So if there are a lot of options for “uniform”, but just a few for “pdf”, then perhaps pdf_uniform is better. If it is the other way round, then uniform_pdf would be better?

There are more plausible distributions than attributes (such as pdf or cdf), so this suggests pdf_uniform. A list of distributions in the R stats package is here.