<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Mar 8, 2013, at 5:13 PM, Chandler Carruth <<a href="mailto:chandlerc@google.com">chandlerc@google.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 5:07 PM, John McCall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rjmccall@apple.com" target="_blank" class="cremed">rjmccall@apple.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; position: static; z-index: auto; "><div><div>Oh, I must have.</div><div class="im"><br><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Several more of your recent commits have converted variables from the InitialCaps style required by the coding standard to an initialLowercase form.</div>
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</blockquote></div></div><br><div>Oh, did that get formalized? That's unfortunate for quite a few reasons. Maybe LLVM is consistent about it, but Clang's code base is pretty far from that, particularly in IR-gen.</div>
</blockquote></div><br>It did, and it is much more consistent in LLVM and other parts of Clang. Not really endorsing it, but I figure we should all suffer through it or get Chris to change it. ;]</div></div>
</blockquote></div><br><div>How's that reformatting tool coming along? :)</div><div><br></div><div>I mean, there's also mass inconsistency in LLVM and Clang about capitalization of methods. Or rather, there isn't: I would estimate that LLVM and Clang are ~90% consistent with a convention of capitalizing the first letter in a method name, and (1) that also contradicts the style guide and (2) it actually *matters* because everybody using that method has to be aware of it.</div><div><br></div><div>It seems clear to me that we're going to have a red letter day sooner or later where we rename a bunch of LLVM APIs, and if we do that, we should also change the local variable convention to something that LLVM contributors don't essentially universally dislike.</div><div><br></div><div>John.</div></body></html>