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

Csaba Raduly rcsaba at gmail.com
Mon Nov 29 05:21:45 PST 2010


On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Anton Korobeynikov  wrote:
>  MachineInstr *MI looks much better than MachineInstr *mi, etc.

Traditionally (in C), all-uppercase names have been reserved for
macros. Of course, real C++ programmers don't use macros... :)

Still, looking at an identifier e.g. FROM, it's not immediately clear
that it's not a macro but an instance of FastResponseOuterMethod.

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