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: 1073c2,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 107a89,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 11440e,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid11440e,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-08 10:07:56 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!netnews.com!feed.cgocable.net!news.infoave.net!news3.infoave.net!not-for-mail From: Chris Uzdavinis 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: 08 Jun 2001 13:07:39 -0400 Organization: Automated Trading Desk, Inc. Sender: chris@explicit.atdesk.com Message-ID: 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> <3B20D566.BD199336@brighton.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: host63.atdesk.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news3.infoave.net 992020061 8938 204.130.247.63 (8 Jun 2001 17:07:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@infoave.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 17:07:41 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.5 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ruby:10507 comp.lang.ada:8438 comp.lang.awk:2923 comp.lang.clarion:21473 comp.lang.java.programmer:74843 comp.lang.pl1:928 comp.lang.vrml:3667 Date: 2001-06-08T13:07:39-04:00 List-Id: John English writes: > James Kanze wrote: > > > > 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... :-) You were ahead of your time. :) -- Chris