[Pki-devel] Automatic reformatting and code style

John Dennis jdennis at redhat.com
Tue Nov 29 13:36:39 UTC 2011


On 11/28/2011 09:27 PM, Nathan Kinder wrote:
>This can lead to false assumptions when one should
> really consult the declaration to see what it truly is. The ability for
> the naming to be inconsistent with the declaration makes encoding the
> scope useless (and potentially bad) IMHO. I know I've been very
> frustrated running into variable names in C that had the type encoded
> originally, but someone changed the type in the declaration without
> changing the variable name.

Which is precisely why encoding type information into a symbol name is a 
bad idea.

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