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Re: C++ bootstrap (part 7/n): Rename `class' to `cl' everywhere.
Bernardo Innocenti <bernie@develer.com> writes:
| Nathan Sidwell wrote:
| > Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
| >
| >>Ranjit Mathew wrote:
| >>
| >>
| >>>Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
| >>>
| >>>
| >>>>I've seen the `cl' abbreviation already used elsewhere in GCC (for
| >>>>instance tree-outof-ssa.c and tree-ssa-live.c). It's quite customary
| >>>>also in other projects.
| >>>>
| >>>>Would `cls' sound better to you?
| >>>
| >>>libjava uses "klass" in a lot of places - how about that?
| >
| > klass is used in cp, and clas is used in java. klass is good for me.
|
| $ cd gcc-HEAD
| $ egrep '\<cl\>' . | wc -l
| 332
| $ egrep -r '\<cl\>' . | wc -l
| 760
| egrep -r '\<cls\>' . | wc -l
| 30
| $ egrep -r '\<klass\>' . | wc -l
| 44
|
| My personal favourite is 'cl', which also happens to be the
| most popular. 'cls' would be my second choice.
I don't quite understand why it should be "class" or "klass" or
"khlass". Why can't it be "class_type" or "classtype"?
-- Gaby