On Monday 21 July 2008 23:38, Paul Moore <paul.moore@xxxxxx> wrote: > A few thoughts: others did not object to those variable names when the > patches were proposed, or at any point prior to this thread, and no one > besides you and I has commented on this thread. This is a sign to me > that the 'idx' variable name is not a significant distraction to the > community. One thing that is worth considering is the possibility that idx might be better for searching. Lots of words contain an 'i' character and therefore searching for a variable named 'i' in a code base is going to be difficult (automated searching is mostly useless, probably the best option is to have your editor highlight every instance and visually scan for the ones with are not surrounded by brackets, braces, parenthesis, spaces, commas, or whatever else is not acceptable in a variable name in the language in question. Of course if you have a syntax highlighting editor then it might parse enough of the language to avoid this (but that isn't always available), and if you have a language such as Perl a search for \$i should work reasonably well. http://etbe.coker.com.au/2008/07/30/variable-names/ But using idx, index, or even names such as "count" which refer to the meaning of the program might be more efficient overall. I've posted some more thoughts on this issue at the above URL. -- russell@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Blog http://www.coker.com.au/sponsorship.html Sponsoring Free Software development -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.
