On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:29:51PM +0000, Guido Trotter wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Iustin Pop <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 01:29:25PM +0100, Iustin Pop wrote:
> >> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:31:17AM +0000, Guido Trotter wrote:
> >> > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Iustin Pop <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > > Let me try to explain in words what is happening, and you can then
> >> > > suggest a better name:
> >> > >
> >> > > - at first, we have old_pnode on which the instance lives, and 
> >> > > new_pnode
> >> > >  on which the instance will live
> >> > > - we "remove" the instance from its old_pnode, which gives us the new
> >> > >  version of the old_pnode, which I called old_pnode'
> >> > > - we "add" the instance to its new_pnode, which gives us the new 
> >> > > version
> >> > >  of new_pnode, called new_pnode'
> >> > >
> >> > > I thought of calling them old_pnode, old_pnode_after_remove, new_pnode,
> >> > > new_pnode_after_add, but this seemed a bit "silly".
> >> > >
> >> > > I'm fine with any names, for the record, just don't know how to name
> >> > > them nicely.
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > I'm fine with ' as long as it's clear what we mean.
> >> > Perhaps we can document in our styleguide when and how to use '
> >> > variables? (as the new state of an entity after a transformation
> >> > happening inside a function).
> >>
> >> Yes, definitely - I picked this naming style up from the fact that it is
> >> indeed the customary use.
> >>
> >> I'll update the wiki then, thanks!
> >
> > Wiki updated, please take a look :)
> >
> 
> Thanks. This makes it clearer although I'm not sure we should allow
> "that many" updated values, as it'd be almost a way of "working
> around" some language functionality.
> So I'd be even more strict into limiting them. But at least now it's
> clear, thanks.

Oh, I'm fine to limit; 3 max 4 is fine, above that clearly you're doing
the wrong thing; feel free to update.

Anyway, where does that leave this particular patch/interdiff?

iustin

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