Paul wrote: > The obvious name would be `board' or `state'. Names like `bs' are not > obvious. However, if Gunnar doesn't want to type, it seems we'll have > to use those.
It's not just about typing but reading as well. What we discuss is a method to implement object orientation in C, where the object pointer is passed around between the functions. In a typical object oriented language the member variables would be accessible without any pointer indirection at all. This is the basic reason why I want a short name for these. See for example influence.c where the object pointer is consistently called q. Would the code in, say, value_territory() gain from changing q into something logical like "influence"? At least I would find it more difficult to identify the significant information in the code that way. Now "q->" is easy to visually distinguish as an identifier for member variables. One can notice that some coding styles for C++ (and maybe Java?) require member variables to be prefixed by "m_", which visually is kind of similar. But well, I can live with goban too. Or we could borrow a little more from object oriented languages and call the object pointer "this". The latter might introduce some confusion for people who are used to languages where "this" is a keyword, however. /Gunnar _______________________________________________ gnugo-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnugo-devel
