From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: "Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@rogers.com>
Cc: Reiserfs mail-list <Reiserfs-List@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: programming methodology terminology
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 17:49:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43E16526.3040206@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <78426832169-BeMail@AlexDualP3>
Alexander G. M. Smith wrote:
>Hans Reiser wrote on Sun, 29 Jan 2006 23:15:41 -0800:
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>>When you use a return value #define for two different meanings,
>>is there a name for that? It is generally accepted to be bad
>>style, yes?
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>It might be called something overloading, perhaps Semantic Overloading?
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>- Alex
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That sounds right. At any rate, we should avoid doing it the way we do
with -E_REPEAT and its cousins..... ;-)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-02 1:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-30 7:15 programming methodology terminology Hans Reiser
2006-01-30 7:58 ` Ivan Pulleyn
2006-01-31 6:04 ` Christian Iversen
2006-02-02 1:34 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2006-02-02 1:49 ` Hans Reiser [this message]
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