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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: malattia@linux.it, kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	trivial@kernel.org
Subject: Re: struct should not be named same way as function in sony-laptop
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 18:09:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080103170930.GA1728@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080103111543.GS27894@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

On Thu 2008-01-03 11:15:43, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:01:54PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Naming struct and function by same name is evil. Rename the struct.
> 
> Um... why?  It's not even particulary bad style per se...  Occurs less
> frequently than things like
> 	struct foo *foo;
> but nothing inherently terrible and not likely to cause any kind of
> confusion.

Well, it confused me a lot in this particular case...
									Pavel
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      reply	other threads:[~2008-01-03 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-03 11:01 struct should not be named same way as function in sony-laptop Pavel Machek
2008-01-03 11:15 ` Al Viro
2008-01-03 17:09   ` Pavel Machek [this message]

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