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<p>I don't care about the convention, but I'm really not sure it's
worth the churn which would result in the code base. The hurtle
which needs cleared here is not "is it a better naming style", but
"is the disruption implied by changing to the new convention
justified". To be clear, not opposed, just hesitant. <br>
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<p>Philip<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/7/19 2:10 PM, Michael Platings via
llvm-dev wrote:<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">TL;DR: change the rule
for variable names from UpperCamelCase to lowerCamelCase.<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Just to get wider
visibility on this, I'm raising this again as an RFC, as
suggested by
<span>Roman Lebedev</span>.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">My original post from
last week is here and gives a rationale: <a
href="http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-February/129854.html"
class="OWAAutoLink" moz-do-not-send="true">http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-February/129854.html</a>.
There seemed to be general agreement that the status quo is
not ideal.<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Chris Lattner pointed
out that this came up in 2014 as well: <a
href="http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2014-October/077685.html"
class="OWAAutoLink" moz-do-not-send="true">http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2014-October/077685.html</a><br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">I've created a patch to
implement the change. Review and comments welcome:
<a href="https://reviews.llvm.org/D57896" class="OWAAutoLink"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://reviews.llvm.org/D57896</a><br>
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