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20:32:18 paulapatience I'm not a huge fan of ggplot's short names, especially in Lisp, but it might be worth reconsidering it

20:34:17 paulapatience I just spent several hours finetuning print-object so that the object hierarchy of a composed plot is easy to read, and also possibly readable

20:35:10 paulapatience I'm getting pretty good at using format directives

2:07:14 paulapatience Well, it seems that "caption" is a synonym for "title". (captions :x "time" :y "speed") might be ok.

2:08:07 paulapatience Still would be weird to have (captions :caption "...")

2:08:48 paulapatience Maybe ggplot's caption could be footnote instead

2:09:12 paulapatience So (captions :x ... :y ... :title ... :subtitle ... :footnote)

2:10:08 paulapatience A ggplot caption is not really like a standard figure or table caption.

2:19:58 paulapatience ... and it disambiguates tick labels.

2:20:09 paulapatience ("captions" does)

2:33:06 paulapatience While we're on the topic of naming, jackdaniel, what do you think of the name "trace" for something similar to ggplot layers?

2:34:27 paulapatience It's not exactly the same thing as a ggplot layer, basically it's a collection of data, mapping and geom. (I haven't decided where to put transforms, so for now it is a subset of a ggplot layer.)

2:34:53 paulapatience But the reason I didn't want to use layer is because I wanted to have the layered-trace class, which contains a list of traces.

2:36:13 paulapatience It was either trace, layered-trace, or layer and layers, but in the latter case there is a different of only one character in the names, and also, in my figure class, I wanted to accept a trace or a layered-trace, and with the singular term I can just have an initarg :trace, whereas with the plural it would be awkward, i.e., :layer layer, :layer layers, or :layers layer, :layers layers.

5:42:53 jackdaniel I think that layers is a fine name, and if you have many layers then they can be, by definition, layered :)

5:43:16 jackdaniel also the farther you move from the original wording of ggplot, harder it is to comprehend meaning for outsiders who know ggplot

5:43:59 jackdaniel and layers may be specified to accept one-or-more layers (and in the constructor you could coerce it to a sequence)