[LLVMdev] RFC: variable names (original) (raw)

Chandler Carruth chandlerc at google.com
Mon Oct 13 18:13:04 PDT 2014

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Sean Silva <chisophugis at gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Nick Kledzik <kledzik at apple.com> wrote:

I’d like to discuss revising the LLVM coding conventions to change the naming of variables to start with a lowercase letter. This should not be a discussion on the pain of such a transition, or how to get from here to there, but rather, if there is a better place to be.

How about we set up a little form (easy with google docs) where people can fill in their gripes. The rules for the form are that every time the current convention causes you an issue or annoyance in practice, you fill in information about your current situation. I don't think we can really evaluate "a better place to be" without empirical information.

While such data would perhaps be interesting, I don't think your suggestion is practical. It requires to do extra work when they are already frustrated by doing extra work (due to the bad coding convention). And it will be a terribly biased sample set. And there is no way to objectively rank the pain points.

Armchair speculation about what might or might not be "better" is not going to get us anywhere.

In the absence of data, it is possible for people to make a judgement based on logical principles, their experience, and intuition. It doesn't seem unreasonable to pursue such a course here. It may not result in a perfect outcome, but it at least has the potential to result in an improvement over the status quo. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20141013/c9dee548/attachment.html>

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