Re: [boost] Re: Boost.Threads draft library submission

From: Greg Colvin (gcolvin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-03-17 10:04:48

From: <williamkempf_at_[hidden]>
> ...  There are 
> five styles I've seen used, each rubs me wrong for different reasons:

Make that six.

  name: Also commonly used, short, readable, no conflicts.

> m_name: This makes the variable name longer and harder to read to me, 
> even though coming from the MS world I'm very used to it.  I just 
> don't like the embedded underscore here.  This is awfully nit picky, 
> yes, so when I do use warts this is often the one I use.
> 
> mname: Fully unreadable.
> 
> mName: Readable, but I prefer not using mix case, which I believe was 
> mentioned in the Boost guidelines as well, though I could be 
> remembering this wrong.
> 
> _name:  As Dave pointed out this is only safe in the context of class 
> variables.  Granted, that's precisely what the wart is supposed to 
> indicate, but it still feels wrong to use a wart that's restricted in 
> some cases.
> 
> name_: Don't know why, but this one really bugs me.  It looks like 
> someone just didn't finish typing out the variable name here.

And name_ is commonly used in macro expansions to avoid conflicts
with user names.