Re: [boost] Formal Review: The Spirit Parser Framework.

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-12 08:12:34

At 08:38 PM 10/11/2002, Joel de Guzman wrote:

 >----- Original Message -----
 >From: "Dan Gohman" <dgohman_at_[hidden]>

 >> Types like anychar_ look like they should be moved into an
 >> implementation-detail namespace.
 >
 >Why?

Although it is not a Boost convention, it isn't uncommon for coding 
conventions to call for implementation and/or private member names to be in 
the form name_.

Thus for those of us that see that all time in industrial code, it is 
jarring to see name_ used otherwise.

I've also noticed that names which begin or end with underscore tend to 
cause long discussions or downright arguments, and are thus best avoided in 
the interest of moving forward.

Those aren't particularly strong arguments, but they are strong enough to 
make me avoid leading or trailing underscores except when they serve some 
special worthwhile purpose (as they do in a few Boost libs).

--Beman