From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ad19,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ad19,public X-Google-Thread: 11440e,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid11440e,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1073c2,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: 107a89,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-08 07:41:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!server3.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.clarion,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.vrml Subject: Re: Long names are doom ? Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 14:38:46 +0100 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3B20D566.BD199336@brighton.ac.uk> References: <3B0DD011.88FCD00E@acm.org> <83WP6.3874$yc6.728572@news.xtra.co.nz> <3B1411D0.3AAF42E7@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <9f2nks$ibd$0@dosa.alt.net> <3B177EF7.2A2470F4@facilnet.es> <9f8b7b$h0e$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9f8r0i$lu3$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B1DF8FE.80691865@brighton.ac.uk> <3B20D13A.AB10C9@dresdner-bank.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc2je.it.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 992008887 26045 193.62.183.154 (8 Jun 2001 14:01:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Jun 2001 14:01:27 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en-gb] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ruby:10494 comp.lang.ada:8418 comp.lang.awk:2908 comp.lang.clarion:21449 comp.lang.java.programmer:74781 comp.lang.pl1:914 comp.lang.vrml:3652 Date: 2001-06-08T14:01:27+00:00 List-Id: James Kanze wrote: > > John English wrote: > > I think you'll find that C code of 20 or 30 years ago (K&R C, long > > before ANSI C let alone C++) traditionally used > > lower_case_with_underlines for identifiers, > > C code of 20 or 30 years ago didn't use either. Identifiers would be > something like lwrcswuline. Modern C++ makes extensive use of the _ > as a separator, at least in the standard libraries. Ten years ago, > however, it was still more or less following the C tradition. Well, *I* used to use underlines in *my* C code in the 70s/80s... :-) ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.comp.it.bton.ac.uk/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------