Re: [PATCH spice-gtk 2/5] widget: minor code style improvements

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Hi

----- Original Message -----
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 04:31:20AM -0400, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 12:55:38AM +0400, marcandre.lureau@xxxxxxxxxx
> > > wrote:
> > > > From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > 
> > > > Use shorter line, use the common "d" variable for private data access,
> > > > add brackets to ease reading the inner block vs the condition, remove
> > > > needless != NULL.
> > > 
> > > I'd lean towards NACK for this one, one letter variable names is imo
> > > very bad for readability. I know this is widespread in the spice-gtk
> > > codebase, but I'd at least rather not expand that usage.
> > > 
> > 
> > You may rename it "priv", but then you lost the benefit of being really
> > short.
> 
> Being really short is a benefit? This is where we are going to disagree :)

Well, in an proper OO language, you wouldn't even have it, it would be like magic!

So yes, I like private member being accessed with a very short variable in C. If it's use consistently, there is very little confusion possible imho.
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