[cfe-dev] [LLVMdev] draft rule for naming types/functions/variables

[Bo Persson]

On 29 nov 2010 03:47 "Xu Zhongxing" <xuzhongxing at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I enjoyed the new coding style in recent patches. Camel case makes it
> easy to pick a descriptive name. Starting functions and variables with
> lower cases reduces chances to conflict with a type name.

On the other hand, having names that only differ in the case of a single character, is not really improving readability at all. 

In my opinion, this is a misuse of the C family language rules that happen to allow it. In other languages it is forbidden.


Bo Persson