Re: Coding style - a non-issue

Paul G. Allen
2001-11-30T18:22:41Z

antirez wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 11:47:28AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > The security community has shown us time and again that public shaming
> > is often the only way to motivate vendors into fixing security
> > problems. Yes, even BSD security guys do this :)
>
> It's a bit different. Usually the security community uses it
> when there isn't a way to fix the code (i.e. non-free code)
> or when the maintaner of the code refused to fix the issue.
> Also to "expose" the security problem isn't the same as
> to flame.
>
> While not a good idea, something like a long name
> for a local var isn't a big problem like a completly
> broken software with huge security holes used by milions of people
> every day.
>

A variable/function name should ALWAYS be descriptive of the
variable/function purpose. If it takes a long name, so be it. At least
the next guy looking at it will know what it is for.

PGA
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Paul G. Allen
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