[cfe-dev] [analyzer] Spell out ENTO in clang::ento

[Balázs Benics via cfe-dev]

> In my opinion this is a great example of bad and meaningless naming.
"ento" says nothing to a newcomer, neither to experienced folks. I'd rather
rename the namespace simply to sa (Static Analyzer).
I strongly share your suggestion. I would love a sensible namespace.

Folks, please share your thoughts on this.

On Tue, May 26, 2020, 12:16 Gábor Márton via cfe-dev <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org>
wrote:

> No, I think this rather an allusion that this stuff supposed to find bugs.
> In my opinion this is a great example of bad and meaningless naming. "ento"
> says nothing to a newcomer, neither to experienced folks. I'd rather rename
> the namespace simply to sa (Static Analyzer). As such I am turning this
> conversation into an RFC on that renaming suggestion (+cfe-dev again).
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 11:48 AM Denis Petrov <dpetrov at accesssoftek.com>
> wrote:
>
>> > It is a joke. It abbreviates entomology. [1]
>>
>> Is it a reference emphasising of amount of bugs inside it? :)​​
>>
>>
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>> It is a joke. It abbreviates entomology. [1]
>>
>> [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomology
>>
>> On Tue, May 26, 2020, 12:17 AM Gábor Márton via cfe-dev <
>> cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I work with the static analyzer for a while now, but I still don't know
>>> what the abbreviation ENTO stands for. Actually, a huge part of the
>>> analyzer resides in the ento namespace. Seems like it used to be called
>>> "GR" ... Would be also interesting to know what does the GR abbreviations
>>> mean.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
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