[cfe-commits] [PATCH] Rename

Ted Kremenek kremenek at apple.com
Thu Oct 16 22:46:30 PDT 2008


On Oct 16, 2008, at 10:38 PM, Zhongxing Xu wrote:

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> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Ted Kremenek <kremenek at apple.com>  
> wrote:
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> On Oct 16, 2008, at 10:31 PM, Zhongxing Xu wrote:
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> Yeah, it seems a little confusing. But other names are worse:
> AbstractVal, too long
> AVal, like nonsense.
> ProgVal, even farther way.
>
> Yeah I agree.  I also thought of "SymVal" for symbolic value, but  
> that conflates with our use of symbols.  I also thought of SemVal,  
> for "semantic" value.  This one is kind of nice because it reflects  
> that we are reasoning about "semantics" as opposed to "syntax".
>
> What about "SVal"? "S" can represent many meanings: semantic value,  
> symbolic value, static-analysis value. And it's shorter.

Sounds good!  For a second I thought it conflicted with something from  
Lisp, but I was thinking of "s expressions."  It's also the same  
number of characters as RVal.
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