Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Feb 2002 23:10:17 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: ide cleanup |
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Hi!
> >>>IDE is > >>>* infested with polish notation > >>> > >>I don't see any polish notation there. Could you please explain what you > >>mean with this note? > >> > > > >I think Pavel meant what I think is called "hungarian notation", adding > >_t's to type identifiers or adding _i or i_ to integer variables. > > > The encoding of type signatures in function names is indeed called > hungarian notation. > The _t at the end of type names is a POSIX habit of markup for system > defined types - this should *NOT* > be used in user land programms but is OK for the kernel. However for the > ide drivers it's indeed unnecessary > code noise. > > Polish notation is the anglo-saxon term for a mathematical expression > syntax which is avoiding > parents by not using an "in between" operator notation but using > functional notation instead. > It was invented by ?ukasiewich at the beginning of the last century for > formal logic and is indeed more > convenient there if you start to deal with long expressions.... Just to > clarify the terms OK?
Sorry, I really meant that nasty _t. (The driver even did things like
struct foo xyzzy; memset(&xyzzy, 0, sizeof(foo_t));
using both 'struct foo' and foo_t for one variable. Pavel -- (about SSSCA) "I don't say this lightly. However, I really think that the U.S. no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a plutocracy." --hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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