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From: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
To: Mark I Manning IV <mark4@purplecoder.com>
Cc: Stephen Satchell <satch@fluent-access.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT?] Coding Style
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 23:56:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20010122233742.00ae5e40@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A6C630E.C2CB784C@purplecoder.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010122130852.00b92a80@mail.fluent-access.com>

At 16:42 22/01/2001, Mark I Manning IV wrote:
>Stephen Satchell wrote:
> >                                              I got in the habit of using
> >  structures to minimize the number of symbols I exposed. It also
> > disambiguates local variables and parameters from file- and program-global
> > variables.
>
>explain this one to me, i think it might be usefull...

What might be meant is that instead of declaring variables my_module_var1, 
my_module_var2, my_module_var3, etc. you declare a struct my_module { var1; 
var2; var3; etc. }. Obviously in glorious technicolour formatting... (-;
That's my interpretation anyway...

Anton


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-01-22 23:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-22 21:09 [OT?] Coding Style Stephen Satchell
2001-01-22 16:42 ` Mark I Manning IV
2001-01-22 23:56 ` Anton Altaparmakov [this message]
2001-01-23  0:01   ` Larry McVoy
2001-01-23  6:37 ` Stephen Satchell
2001-01-23  8:37 ` Helge Hafting
2001-01-23 18:58   ` Alan Olsen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-23 22:22 Jonathan Earle
2001-01-23 16:47 Jesse Pollard
2001-01-24  0:07 ` Stephen Satchell
2001-01-23 15:41 Jonathan Earle
2001-01-23 15:58 ` Larry McVoy
2001-01-23 16:00 ` Mike Harrold
2001-01-23 16:32   ` Joe deBlaquiere
2001-01-24  1:14     ` Steve Underwood
2001-01-25 13:33       ` Kai Henningsen
2001-01-24  5:42     ` Brent Rowland
2001-01-24  5:50       ` Andre Hedrick
2001-01-26  0:20   ` James Stevenson
2001-01-23 16:14 ` Georg Nikodym
2001-01-23 18:05   ` Christopher Friesen
2001-01-23 18:41     ` Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
2001-01-23 18:44   ` Georg Nikodym
2001-01-23 18:53   ` James Kelly
2001-01-23 17:42 ` John Kodis
2001-01-25 13:38   ` Kai Henningsen
2001-01-25 13:25 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-01-25 19:30   ` Harald Arnesen
2001-01-22 17:53 Jonathan Earle
2001-01-22 16:04 Jonathan Earle
2001-01-22 16:19 ` Mike Harrold
2001-01-22 16:22 ` Larry McVoy
2001-01-22 18:29   ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-01-22 23:20   ` Admin Mailing Lists
2001-01-23  0:54     ` Werner Almesberger
2001-01-23 12:28   ` Steve Underwood
2001-01-23 16:17     ` Nicolas Noble
2001-01-23 21:16       ` David Benfell
2001-01-23 12:52   ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-23 18:10   ` Stephen Satchell
2001-01-22 17:43 ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-01-20 15:32 Anton Altaparmakov
2001-01-20 16:19 ` [OT?] " profmakx.fmp
2001-01-21  5:10   ` Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
2001-01-21  5:50     ` Admin Mailing Lists
2001-01-21  5:58       ` Mike A. Harris
2001-01-21  7:07         ` Josh Myer
2001-01-21  7:20       ` Alan Olsen
2001-01-21 22:40       ` Mo McKinlay
2001-01-22  0:23         ` Admin Mailing Lists

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