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Re: [PATCH] manage dom-walk_data initialization and finalization with constructors and destructors
- From: Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- To: Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>, Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>, Trevor Saunders <tsaunders at mozilla dot com>, Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>, GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Richard Sandiford <rdsandiford at googlemail dot com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 10:13:27 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] manage dom-walk_data initialization and finalization with constructors and destructors
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On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Richard Sandiford
<rdsandiford@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Michael Matz <matz@suse.de> writes:
>> What's the benefit of reading and writing such noisy lines? :
>>
>> *out_mode = mode_;
>> mode_ = GET_MODE_WIDER_MODE (mode_);
>> count_++;
>>
>> The uglification merely makes code harder to write and read, it should be
>> used in cases where you _don't_ want developers to write such names.
>
> Heh. Since it's my code being used as the example here: I also find it
> very ugly FWIW. I only added the underscores because that's what the
> conventions said.
>
> But we're never going to get consensus on this kind of thing. E.g. I
> know some people really hate the GNU formatting style (although I very
> much like it). So I just held my nose while writing the patch.
Btw, I've come around multiple coding-styles in the past and I definitely
would prefer m_mode / m_count to mark members vs. mode_ and count_.
(and s_XXX for static members IIRC).
Richard.
> Thanks,
> Richard