On Oct 18, 2004, at 11:28 AM, James Newtons Massmind wrote:
>>
>> It is time for me to make my annual post of my style guide.
>> Here are the Ten Commandments of C Style
>>
Blasphemous heathen!

The only thing there that I have objections to is the idea that
indentifiers should be unique in the first 6 to 8 characters.  In
particular, it can frequently be a good idea to have structure name
members include the structure:
     struct udptype_ {
         unsigned short udp_sport;
         unsigned short udp_dport;
         unsigned short udp_length;
         unsigned short udp_cksum;
     } udp;

This can help considerable when searching, since things like "length"
by themselves are distressingly common.  once you use up 4+ characters
on structure prefix, you don't have much left if you want things unique
in 6 characters.  (of course, the above example IS...)

BillW

	

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