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Re: shall we rename X-offset (and similar) to lowercase?
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Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: shall we rename X-offset (and similar) to lowercase? |
Date: |
Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:55:33 +0100 (CET) |
> We have in C++ macros X Y LEFT RIGHT etc, and making them lowercase
> would heavily conflict with typical variable names.
Yes: cpp stuff should be uppercase.
> Making things different between C and Scheme here is definitely an
> option.
I think the same: we already substitute `-' in Scheme with `_' in C++,
so I think it should be straightforward to do the same for `LEFT' and
friends.
> Still, I doubt that we would be doing programmers a net favor over
> the current names. I am not particularly enamored to them, but I
> don't see an exit strategy with reasonable long-term benefits
> either.
My concern is the user side only since we don't want to make the cpp
stuff visible.
Werner
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- Re: shall we rename X-offset (and similar) to lowercase?, David Kastrup, 2013/03/21
- Re: shall we rename X-offset (and similar) to lowercase?, Eluze, 2013/03/22
- Re: shall we rename X-offset (and similar) to lowercase?, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/03/22
- Re: shall we rename X-offset (and similar) to lowercase?, Janek Warchoł, 2013/03/24
- Re: shall we rename X-offset (and similar) to lowercase?, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/03/24
- Re: shall we rename X-offset (and similar) to lowercase?, David Kastrup, 2013/03/24
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- Re: shall we rename X-offset (and similar) to lowercase?, David Kastrup, 2013/03/24
- Re: shall we rename X-offset (and similar) to lowercase?, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/03/24
- Re: shall we rename X-offset (and similar) to lowercase?, David Kastrup, 2013/03/24
- Re: shall we rename X-offset (and similar) to lowercase?, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/03/24
- Re: shall we rename X-offset (and similar) to lowercase?, David Kastrup, 2013/03/24
- Re: shall we rename X-offset (and similar) to lowercase?, Werner LEMBERG, 2013/03/24
- Re: shall we rename X-offset (and similar) to lowercase?, Joram Berger, 2013/03/24
- Re: shall we rename X-offset (and similar) to lowercase?, Trevor Daniels, 2013/03/24
- Re: shall we rename X-offset (and similar) to lowercase?, David Kastrup, 2013/03/24
- Re: shall we rename X-offset (and similar) to lowercase?, Eluze, 2013/03/24