Re: Coding style - a non-issue

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <[e-mail]>
By author:    Jeff Garzik <[e-mail]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> "Paul G. Allen" wrote:
> > IMEO, there is but one source as reference for coding style: A book by
> > the name of "Code Complete". (Sorry, I can't remember the author and I
> > no longer have a copy. Maybe my Brother will chime in here and fill in
> > the blanks since he still has his copy.)
> 
> Hungarian notation???
> 
> That was developed by programmers with apparently no skill to
> see/remember how a variable is defined.  IMHO in the Linux community
> it's widely considered one of the worst coding styles possible.
> 

Indeed.  What can you say for a technique which basically promotes
*reducing* abstraction and information hiding?

There is a reason why the Win64 ABI uses the same "int" and "long" as
Win32... (both are 32 bits.)  They added meaningless abstractions, and
didn't add abstractions where they needed to...

	-hpa

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