On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 01:39 +0200, Johan Corveleyn wrote: > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 01:15:56AM +0200, Johan Corveleyn wrote: > >> [[[ > >> The usual namespace rules apply: only names that begin with "SVN_" > >> and don't contain double underscores are considered part of the public > >> API. Everything else is not officially supported. > >> ]]] > >> > >> Thinking: "I don't think this should be part of the public API", so I > >> can just dispense with the "SVN_" prefix. > > > > In this case I would advocate for SVN__DISABLE_PREFIX_SUFFIX_SCANNING :) > > You're right that it doesn't need to be part of the public API. > > I went for SVN_DISABLE_PREFIX_SUFFIX_SCANNING in the end (r1129965). > Who knows, maybe it can prove useful someday, if some special build > needs to disable this f.i. because it has problems with the seeking > around of the prefix/suffix scanning (jumping to the end of the file, > then jumping to the start again) or something ...
I think the implication that these #defines are considered part of the public API is not true. This one's purpose is definitely private (debugging/testing/optimising); there's no point in speculating that it might turn out to be useful. - Julian
