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Re: [PATCH 03/20] cat-file: rename variables in ref-filter

From
Оля Тележная <olyatelezhnaya@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 10, 2018, 07:07 UTC
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2018-01-10 1:04 GMT+03:00 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
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> Olga Telezhnaya <olyatelezhnaya@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Rename some variables for easier reading.
>> They point not to values, but to arrays.
>
> Once the code is written and people start to build on top, a change
> like this is not worth the code churn, especially because there are
> two equally valid schools of naming convention.
>
>  - When you have an array, each of whose 20 slots holds a single
>    dosh, I would prefer to call the array dosh[20], not doshes[20],
>    so that I can refer to the seventh dosh as "dosh[7]".
>
>  - If you more often refer to the array as a whole (than you refer
>    to individual elements) and want to stress the fact that the
>    array holds multiple elements in it, I can understand that you
>    may be tempted to call the whole array "doshes[]".
>
> So please drop this and other "rename variables" patches from the
> series.
>
>

OK, I will revert that. I have done this because it's hard for me to keep in mind that it's not just a simple pointer to a single value, and I tried to make the code more intuitive.

Previous: Junio C HamanoNext: Olga Telezhnaya
Message 22 of 24 in “cat-file: split expand_atom into 2 functions”
  1. 01/20 cat-file: split expand_atom into 2 functionsOlga Telezhnaya, Jan 9, 2018
  2. 11/20 cat-file: get rid of duplicate checkingOlga Telezhnaya, Jan 9, 2018
  3. 10/20 cat-file: simplify expand_atom functionOlga Telezhnaya, Jan 9, 2018
  4. 09/20 cat-file: get rid of goto in ref-filterOlga Telezhnaya, Jan 9, 2018
  5. 15/20 cat-file: start reusing populate_valueOlga Telezhnaya, Jan 9, 2018
  6. 19/20 cat-file: move skip_object_info into ref-filterOlga Telezhnaya, Jan 9, 2018
  7. 14/20 cat-file: make populate_value globalOlga Telezhnaya, Jan 9, 2018
  8. 20/20 cat-file: make cat_file_info variable independentOlga Telezhnaya, Jan 9, 2018
  9. 04/20 cat-file: make valid_atoms as a function parameterOlga Telezhnaya, Jan 9, 2018
  10. Junio C HamanoJan 9, 2018
  11. 07/20 cat-file: reuse parse_ref_filter_atomOlga Telezhnaya, Jan 9, 2018
  12. Junio C HamanoJan 9, 2018
  13. 12/20 cat-file: rename variable in ref-filterOlga Telezhnaya, Jan 9, 2018
  14. 06/20 cat-file: start migrating to ref-filterOlga Telezhnaya, Jan 9, 2018
  15. 02/20 cat-file: reuse struct ref_formatOlga Telezhnaya, Jan 9, 2018
  16. 18/20 cat-file: add split_on_whitespace flagOlga Telezhnaya, Jan 9, 2018
  17. 13/20 cat-file: start use ref_array_item structOlga Telezhnaya, Jan 9, 2018
  18. 17/20 cat-file: add is_cat flag in ref-filterOlga Telezhnaya, Jan 9, 2018
  19. 16/20 cat-file: get rid of expand_atom_into_fieldsOlga Telezhnaya, Jan 9, 2018
  20. 03/20 cat-file: rename variables in ref-filterOlga Telezhnaya, Jan 9, 2018
  21. Junio C HamanoJan 9, 2018
  22. Оля ТележнаяJan 10, 2018
  23. 08/20 cat-file: remove unused codeOlga Telezhnaya, Jan 9, 2018
  24. 05/20 cat-file: move struct expand_data into ref-filterOlga Telezhnaya, Jan 9, 2018

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