[LLVMdev] type system rewrite terminology

Chris Lattner clattner at apple.com
Thu Aug 11 11:01:23 PDT 2011


On Aug 11, 2011, at 10:41 AM, Chandler Carruth wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:
> >  - "Named" structure type variables, e.g. %struct.foo
> >  - "Unnamed" structures type variables, e.g. %3
> >  - "Literal" structure type expressions, e.g. { double, double }
> 
> I like this! It is much better than the names I came up with.  Any objections?
> 
> Would "identifiers" be a better term than "variables" here? I don't really know, but variables make me think of things that, well, vary.

The terms of interest here are Named/Unnamed/Literal.

-Chris
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