Hi!
> >>>IDE is
> >>>* infested with polish notation
> >>>
> >>I don't see any polish notation there. Could you please explain what you
> >>mean with this note?
> >>
> >
> >I think Pavel meant what I think is called "hungarian notation", adding
> >_t's to type identifiers or adding _i or i_ to integer variables.
> >
> The encoding of type signatures in function names is indeed called
> hungarian notation.
> The _t at the end of type names is a POSIX habit of markup for system
> defined types - this should *NOT*
> be used in user land programms but is OK for the kernel. However for the
> ide drivers it's indeed unnecessary
> code noise.
>
> Polish notation is the anglo-saxon term for a mathematical expression
> syntax which is avoiding
> parents by not using an "in between" operator notation but using
> functional notation instead.
> It was invented by ?ukasiewich at the beginning of the last century for
> formal logic and is indeed more
> convenient there if you start to deal with long expressions.... Just to
> clarify the terms OK?
Sorry, I really meant that nasty _t. (The driver even did things like
struct foo xyzzy;
memset(&xyzzy, 0, sizeof(foo_t));
using both 'struct foo' and foo_t for one variable.
Pavel
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