Hi, We have had a discussion about this already under a different subject. My opinion here is that hook_foo is something that gets implemented by N modules and at call time these are called, one after the other. hook_menu , hook_form_alter etc etc Note that 'hook' is always replaced by the module name. Despite hook_load is called a hook, it's a different animal: at call time, only one implementation is called. Not to mention that since we have a node information hook, 'hook' is not necessarily replaced by the module name. Larry Garfield suggested calling these method_load, method_view and so on. This I find a good idea and now would like to get opinions on this name. Thanks ChX Ps. By the way, theme hooks are also not hooks...