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Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 23:10:17 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
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Subject: Re: ide cleanup
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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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