Stephen Warren wrote:
> It'd be nice if all symbols (types, values, functions, etc.) were all
> prefixed with e.g. "IRR_"/"irr_" to ensure they never conflict with any
> other library.

ACK for the public functions, definitely.

I highly prefer lower case.

> Is this library intended to support anything other than Pronto codes
> (e.g. CIR, RC5, ... encode/decode)? If not, naming the library something
> with "pronto" in the name seems like a good idea (ignoring trademark
> issues anyway.) At least, something much less generic would be good.

Damnit, I meant to mention this...

> Doesn't the LIRC project have a library that does this kind of thing
> already, that could be re-used instead of re-inventing the wheel? In
> fact, don't they have a big database of key codes that might be useful?

I was going to go do some research on if another library already did
this, actually, but never got around to it. If another library already
supports the actions we're looking for with a decent API, we shouldn't
merge our own without good reason.

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