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> Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
>> Interesting side note: I'd initially wanted to use "skip_all" and
>> "continue", but "continue" is a C keyword. That's why I'd reluctantly
>> suffixed "_oper" to both for consistency.
>
> It seems a good idea to restrict such uglification to only those cases
> where it's necessary, not make _everything_ ugly just for the sake of
> consistency.....
>
> [The traditional thing to do with C-keyword conflicts, when there's no
> obvious and natural alternative, seems to just be intentional mispelling
> -- "continu", "kontinue", "cont", "_continue", whatever. Yes, they're
> ugly, but people will know why you did it, and they'll forgive you.]
Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>