From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Distinguishing type names from other identifiers
Date: 1998/01/15
Date: 1998-01-15T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980115115538.6443A-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 69kf9b$fjr@drn.zippo.com
On 14 Jan 1998 nabbasi@earthlink.net wrote:
> In POSIX threads, types are named with a trailing "_t", as in
>
> pthread_mutex_t
>
> I found this to be clear and I like it, a little "_t" at the end is not much
> extra overhead on the eye.
I share your opinion, though I don't find "_Type" too bad either.
The most important rule I follow is the "grandfather clause", and that is
that if the code I am maintaining/modifying/whatever (how many of times do
you get to start at the very beginning?) uses some set of conventions, I
strive to be consistent with them, even if I find them personally
repugnant (like the plurals for types convention), so that the code has
the appearance of being written by one person adhering to a single set
of conventions.
> my final 2 cents is that a trailing "_t" in Ada would be a good choice
> for a type name, I think "_type" is an overkill, and too much extra typing,
> but I prefer to see "_type" than nothing at all in the type name.
As you can see from all of the postings on this, there are quite a few
diverging opinions. It reminds me of the intense arguments over brace
placement in C. As long as only one convention is used throughout a
project, I don't have too many problems switching over.
> Other conventions I use in my C++/Java programming is to use "m_" as the
> start of a variable name that is local to a class, this I find helps me
> when I am reading code to get a better feeling where things live without
> having to go look for them in the code.
Doug Lea has a pretty decent Java coding standard available at his home
page, which addresses issues like these.
-- Brian
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Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-01-14 0:00 Distinguishing type names from other identifiers tmoran
1998-01-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-14 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-14 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
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1998-01-25 0:00 tmoran
1998-01-25 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-26 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-01-13 0:00 Adam Beneschan
1998-01-14 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-17 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-01-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-21 0:00 ` Philip Brashear
1998-01-20 0:00 ` Benoit Jauvin-Girard
1998-01-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-10 0:00 Two simple language questions (plural types) Matthew Heaney
1998-01-12 0:00 ` Anonymous
1998-01-12 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-12 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Distinguishing type names from other identifiers Nick Roberts
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-14 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Anonymous
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-25 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-24 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Aaro Koskinen
1998-01-17 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-17 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-25 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-25 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
[not found] ` <n5rs5FAStOz0Ew2+@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk>
1998-01-26 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-27 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
1998-01-27 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-01-29 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-30 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-01-28 0:00 ` Martin M Dowie
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