Re: [AD] explicit prefixes on structure field names

[Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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);

Peter