On Mar 8, 2013, at 5:13 PM, Chandler Carruth <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 5:07 PM, John McCall <[email protected]> wrote:
> Oh, I must have.
> 
>> Several more of your recent commits have converted variables from the 
>> InitialCaps style required by the coding standard to an initialLowercase 
>> form.
> 
> Oh, did that get formalized?  That's unfortunate for quite a few reasons.  
> Maybe LLVM is consistent about it, but Clang's code base is pretty far from 
> that, particularly in IR-gen.
> 
> It did, and it is much more consistent in LLVM and other parts of Clang. Not 
> really endorsing it, but I figure we should all suffer through it or get 
> Chris to change it. ;]

How's that reformatting tool coming along? :)

I mean, there's also mass inconsistency in LLVM and Clang about capitalization 
of methods.  Or rather, there isn't:  I would estimate that LLVM and Clang are 
~90% consistent with a convention of capitalizing the first letter in a method 
name, and (1) that also contradicts the style guide and (2) it actually 
*matters* because everybody using that method has to be aware of it.

It seems clear to me that we're going to have a red letter day sooner or later 
where we rename a bunch of LLVM APIs, and if we do that, we should also change 
the local variable convention to something that LLVM contributors don't 
essentially universally dislike.

John.
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