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

[Chris Lattner]

On Dec 3, 2010, at 8:03 PM, Thiago Farina wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Anton Korobeynikov
> <anton at korobeynikov.info> wrote:
>>> 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.
>> Honestly speaking, I don't. Especially in the cases when varname is
>> made from an
>> acronym. E.g. MachineInstr *MI looks much better than MachineInstr *mi, etc.
>> 
> 
> Hum? I don't think MI is better. I haven't see this style until
> clang/llvm. Many others open source projects just uses the normal
> lower case variable, which is MUCH better IMO.
> 
> For me is confusing to have a variable starting with captial letter,
> because it's hard to differentiate it from class names.

Thiago,

The coding standards (which have been finalized and comitted) don't dictate names for local variables.

-Chris