From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:47:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/13] revert: Introduce skip-all to cleanup sequencer data
Message-ID: <CALkWK0mfoPOc5bgWBHwCR3+kZRyJWcQVnHgA12COoQimsrh3Vg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <buowrfy8wtt.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>

Hi Miles,

Miles Bader writes:
> 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.]

Interesting.  Are there such examples in the Git codebase as well?

-- Ram