On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 11:49 AM, David Wilson <dw+python-...@hmmz.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 09:38:55PM +0300, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: > > > > In early ages of C structures didn't create namespaces, and member > > > names were globals. > > > >That's nonsense. The reason is greppability. > > > Good reason! > > The first time I heard about prefixing struct members was to allow > tricks like this: > > x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/stat.h > 94:# define st_atime st_atim.tv_sec /* Backward compatibility. */ > 95:# define st_mtime st_mtim.tv_sec > 96:# define st_ctime st_ctim.tv_sec > > Which is relatively safe thanks to the prefix. > Believe me that is not why the prefix convention was introduced. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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