Re: PDD X: Perl API conventions

2001-03-09 Thread Damien Neil
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 12:29:43AM +0100, Paolo Molaro wrote: > My understanding is that symbols with double underscore or underscore > followed by an uppercase letter are reserved, while _something > symbols are ok if they are not exported and that is actually > what we are doing. I prefer _perl

Re: PDD X: Perl API conventions

2001-03-09 Thread Paolo Molaro
On 03/03/01 Damien Neil wrote: > > All the function names shall begin with the C prefix. The only exception > > is function names that may be used only in the perl core: these names shall > > begin with the C<_perl_> prefix. This will make it possible to export only > > the perl_* functions from t

Re: PDD X: Perl API conventions

2001-03-06 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 11:04 PM 3/4/2001 -0500, Stephen P. Potter wrote: >Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Damien Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >whispered >: >| ISO/ANSI C reserves identifiers beginning with a _. I recommend using >| "perl_" and "perl__" if you want to distinguish internal-only functions >| from p

Re: PDD X: Perl API conventions

2001-03-05 Thread Stephen P. Potter
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Damien Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whispered : | ISO/ANSI C reserves identifiers beginning with a _. I recommend using | "perl_" and "perl__" if you want to distinguish internal-only functions | from public ones. I'd be worried that "_" and "__" are too hard t

Re: PDD X: Perl API conventions

2001-03-03 Thread Damien Neil
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 07:57:54PM +0100, Paolo Molaro wrote: > All the function names shall begin with the C prefix. The only exception > is function names that may be used only in the perl core: these names shall > begin with the C<_perl_> prefix. This will make it possible to export only > the