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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jared Hance <jaredhance@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] struct *_struct
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:24:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vaap2fafm.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100804150843.GA2762@localhost.localdomain> (Jared Hance's message of "Wed\, 4 Aug 2010 11\:08\:43 -0400")

Jared Hance <jaredhance@gmail.com> writes:

>     - We use this style in only 3 cases

I think they were early-days inertia between me and Linus.  I hate "struct
foo_struct" (and "typedef foo struct foo") myself and that is why we don't
see many others.

I am personally Ok if you want to give them more sensible names.  Doing
s/_struct$// is a no-brainer for "diff_queue_struct", but I do not think
doing that alone would be a good idea for "cmd_struct" and "dir_struct".

I'd suggest calling the former "cmd_desc", as it is a set of info on a
single command.  "dir_struct" is a table that records a set of paths in
the whole work tree and it is not about a single directory (nor a single
entry in that table, which is "dir_entry"); as such "dir" that sounds too
similar to DIR that is what opendir() returns (i.e. a single directory)
may probably not be a good name for it.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-04 19:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-04 15:08 [RFC] struct *_struct Jared Hance
2010-08-04 19:24 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2010-08-04 21:38   ` [PATCH] Refactor structures in the form of *_struct Jared Hance
2010-08-05 16:20   ` [RFC] struct *_struct Michael Witten
2010-08-05 22:43     ` Jared Hance
2010-08-06  3:57       ` Michael Witten
2010-08-06 12:29         ` Jared Hance
2010-08-06  2:28     ` Miles Bader

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