Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 15:07:53 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Documentation Project <doc@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: The next exciting installment of docproj.docbook.mk splitting. Message-ID: <19990903150753.F99849@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <19990902224851.A76126@mithrandr.moria.org>; from Neil Blakey-Milner on Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 10:48:51PM %2B0200 References: <19990831170213.A97218@mithrandr.moria.org> <19990902155207.B58095@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <19990902224851.A76126@mithrandr.moria.org>
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On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 10:48:51PM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> > Which just about leaves room for a quick straw poll. Underscores in
> > variable names to separate words. Good or bad?
>
> It's a tough call - the underscores improve readability, but they're
> definitely in the minority.
>
> > name a few. The use of ..._FLAGS vs. ...FLAGS is particularly
> > confusing.
<snip>
> DOCPREFIX vs. DOC_PREFIX? I find it cumbersome to type with the
> underscore. All current usage examples use the form without the
> underscore.
I'll change this as part of new framework.
The rest makes sense. Did I hear you volunteering to write this up for
the primer :-)
N
--
[intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed,
non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs
the links.
-- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu>
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