On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 10:39:41PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Are _identifiers with leading underscore Kosher thing to do, I > wonder... We do have ones with trailing ones (mostly qsort > functions) and I think they are done that way for the sake of > standards conformance. _[a-z]* is kosher for file scopes or function scoping: http://c-faq.com/decl/namespace.html Some Projects' coding styles prohibit use of _[a-z]* altogether, as _[_A-Z]* is reserved for C libraries and system header files, and it's simpler just to ban all identifiers begining with an underscore just on general princinpals. It's not strictly speaking necessary, however. - Ted P.S. Note that the Linux kernel does not worry about such rules; in particular, _[a-z]* is very commonly used at the global scope level, without any problems. It doesn't have to be as portable as git probably needs to be, however. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
