[ast-optimizer-branch]: Make simplified variable names have descriptive prefix

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 04:16:55PM -0400, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> On 18 Jun 2002, Diego Novillo wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 16:02, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> > 
> > > But it just doesn't sit well when every other use of the one in toplev.c 
> > > is for stripping endings off filenames, and we want to strip the ending 
> > > off a variable.
> > > 
> > OK, I see your point.  I'll just rename the function.
> > 
> > > Otherwise, if you assign temporary T.105 to a new temp, it'll decide the 
> > > prefix is T.105, rather than T, and you'll get "T.105.106" as your 
> > > variable name.
> > > 
> > Exactly.  Meaning that the 106th temp came from the 105th temporary. 
> > But I don't really want to do that.  If we allow prefixes to grow, we'll
> > end up with horrific names that will only clutter the output.
> 
> Yup.
> It sounds like a good idea at first, but I think it was something like 
> "T.105.100.99.34.12" that changed my mind.

Down this road is "my whole program is in the name of the last
temporary".  Surely that's a WONDERFUL idea!

</sarcastic>

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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