I prefer @mdboom's suggestion here.  I am very in favour of verbose method names.

>I would be enthousiastic about this, although I still think that the ochl-flavour should eventually be removed to avoid confusion and simplify the interface by reducing the amount of functions.

I agree here, but I'd prefer to see at least a deprecation warning before this is removed.  That way our users are warned about a potential future alteration that requires a change to their code.