Naming of Lifecycle Functions

Question

Does anyone have suggests for life-cycle names. Lifecyle functions are those that control the creation and termination of software engineering constructs.

Examples:

• new / delete
• init / finish
• create / destroy
• connect / disconnect
• constructor / destructor

Consider in the following scenario:

myObjectPtr = myObjectCreate();

myObjectDoSomething(myObjectPtr,1,2.34);
myObjectDoSomethingElse(myObjectPtr,"a string");

myObjectDestroy(myObjectPtr);

Answer 1

The ones you have listed sound good. In general I'd stick with a paradigm that's already in place to make your code easier to read and maintain. In particular, the language or framework you're developing in likely has one already - I'd go with that. When in Rome...