7 Dec
2017
7 Dec
'17
9:24 p.m.
I think the issue was when the folks at UCB added very long symbol names to
the C compiler
On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 3:50 AM Ralph Corderoy <ralph(a)inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
Hi Larry,
I *much* prefer sbuf.st_size than whatever.size,
the former is
instantly a stat structure, the later is a "whatever".
It's awful. :-)
st.st_size `stutters' and that jars when reading in my head.
If st.size isn't clear from context, then stbuf.size probably is.
Ditto ar_hdr->uid versus hdr->ar_uid.
There's a hierarchy to walking the data structure, and that should be
represented in the identifiers. So big.little, not b.bg_little.
--
Cheers, Ralph.
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