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On Thursday 14 December 2006 4:40 pm, Peter Wang wrote:
> On 2006-12-14, Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 02:17 +1100, Peter Wang wrote:
> > > Attached is an example against Elias's xdummy branch. For example, all
> > > AL_SYSTEM_INTERFACE fields might begin with "sysif_". I think the
> > > benefit is quite clear, for example, in the line:
> > >
> > > - active = driver->initialize(0);
> > > + active = driver->sysif_initialize(0);
> >
> > Yes, the benefit is clear. But to me, also the disadvantage. What if we
> > end up with something like:
> >
> > active = sysinf->sysinf_initialize(0);
> >
> > It just looks more unreadable to me than needed.
>
> Alternatively, we can avoid ambiguous single word names for fields and
> variables. e.g.
>
> active = sysdrv->initialize_system(0);
As much as I dislike long names, descriptive == good.
> Peter
>
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