import changes from gcc-in-cxx branch
Dave Korn
dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com
Sat May 16 11:03:00 GMT 2009
Brad Hards wrote:
> On Saturday 16 May 2009 08:37:58 pm Dave Korn wrote:
>> Out of curiosity, does the 'd' in '_d' stand for anything?
> Not to me - I didn't write it.
>
> I do know "d-pointer" as an alternative name for the pimpl idiom in C++, but
> that might not be the same usage here.
>
> Possibly for "different"? "declaration"? "delta"?
... "_don't_warn"? Anyway, no big deal, I just wondered. Maybe we should
adopt a convention for tags <-> typedefs. Maybe it's not important enough to
bother with and ad-hoc choices will be fine. Thanks for commenting.
cheers,
DaveK
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