Re: [PATCH] Rework strbuf API and semantics.

From: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
Date: Sep 5, 2007, 04:44 UTC
Message-ID: <buoabs1raaz.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070904115317.GA3381@artemis.corp>

Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org> writes:

>   In my own coding rules, I have _new/_delete and _init/_wipe functions,
> the former acts on pointers, the latter on the structs. Hence the
> naming.

A little off-topic, but my own personal convention for the latter case are _init/_fini -- I've always thought the "fini" name was a pretty good partner for "init", so I share it here... :-)

-Miles

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