Re: [OT?] Coding Style

[Steve Underwood <steveu@coppice.org>]

Unfortunately the C standards people don't seem to realise there are
languages other than English. C99 had perfect timing to introduce UTF8
Unicode as acceptable in C source. Alas they missed the boat. I have
been embedding Chinese in C source for years (mostly Big-5 -  UTF8 is
more likely to be troublesome with existing compilers), and have yet to
hit a significant problem. It isn't standards compliant, though.

Regards,
Steve


Joe deBlaquiere wrote:
> 
> Too bad we can't just do a "Prince" and invent unpronouncable symbols to
> use as function names... or perhaps just use something from the chinese
> fonts ;o)...
> 
> Mike Harrold wrote:
> 
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> >> I prefer descriptive variable and function names - like comments, they help
> >> to make code so much easier to read.
> >>
> >> One thing I wonder though... why do people prefer 'some_function_name()'
> >> over 'SomeFunctionName()'?  I personally don't like the underscore character
> >> - it's an odd character to type when you're trying to get the name typed in,
> >> and the shifted character, I find, is easier to input.
> >>
> >
> >
> > For exactly the reverse of that reason. Typing capital letters is a heck
> > of a lot more difficult that addint an underscore.
> >
> > Then there is reasability.
> >
> >   void ThisIsMyDumbassFunctionName
> >
> > if MUCH more difficult to read than
> >
> >   void this_is_my_clear_and_easy_function_name
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