Re: [OT?] Coding Style

Anton Altaparmakov (aia21@cam.ac.uk)
Mon, 22 Jan 2001 23:56:40 +0000

At 16:42 22/01/2001, Mark I Manning IV wrote:
>Stephen Satchell wrote:
> > I got in the habit of using
> > structures to minimize the number of symbols I exposed. It also
> > disambiguates local variables and parameters from file- and program-global
> > variables.
>
>explain this one to me, i think it might be usefull...

What might be meant is that instead of declaring variables my_module_var1,
my_module_var2, my_module_var3, etc. you declare a struct my_module { var1;
var2; var3; etc. }. Obviously in glorious technicolour formatting... (-;
That's my interpretation anyway...

Anton

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