[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [PATCH] more small directional cleanups

[Trent Piepho <xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Raimar Falke wrote:
> IMHO this all is about positions and not tiles. IMHO it should be

Yes, I think is_normal_pos and is_real_pos are better names too.  But
is_real_tile and some other is_x_tile functions already exist, so I thought
consistency was more important.

> called "normalized" instead of "normal" see the threads for reasons.

From webster's definition of "normalize":

2 : to make normal (as by a transformation of variables)

So normalized means, "to have been made normal".

If you use normalized instead of normal you are saying that the position was,
at one time, _not_ normal, and then was made so.  If the position was normal
all along, then it was never normalized.