[llvm-dev] RFC: changing variable naming rules in LLVM codebase (original) (raw)

Mehdi AMINI via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Thu Feb 14 16:32:14 PST 2019

On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 2:11 PM Michael Platings via llvm-dev < llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

TL;DR: change the rule for variable names from UpperCamelCase to lowerCamelCase.

Just to get wider visibility on this, I'm raising this again as an RFC, as suggested by Roman Lebedev. My original post from last week is here and gives a rationale: http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-February/129854.html. There seemed to be general agreement that the status quo is not ideal. Chris Lattner pointed out that this came up in 2014 as well: http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2014-October/077685.html I've created a patch to implement the change. Review and comments welcome: https://reviews.llvm.org/D57896

I'm concerned about the internal inconsistency we would live with for (likely) many years if there is not a migration plan to converge the code base toward the new naming convention. (other than that, changing the convention is fine with me, I don't have much preference here)

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