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From: "Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@rogers.com>
To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Cc: Reiserfs mail-list <Reiserfs-List@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: programming methodology terminology
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 20:34:41 -0500 EST	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <78426832169-BeMail@AlexDualP3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43DDBD1D.6030900@namesys.com>

Hans Reiser wrote on Sun, 29 Jan 2006 23:15:41 -0800:
> 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?

It might be called something overloading, perhaps Semantic Overloading?

- Alex

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-02  1:34 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 [this message]
2006-02-02  1:49   ` Hans Reiser

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