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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: How do you name table/structure elements?
Message-ID: <1990Jan17.194804.15864@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Jan16.170217.16718@aqdata.uucp>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 90 19:48:04 GMT

In article <1990Jan16.170217.16718@aqdata.uucp> sullivan@aqdata.uucp (Michael T. Sullivan) writes:
>I would like to get some feedback as to how and why you name your
>database table rows or C structure elements.  As far as I can tell,
>there are two camps:  the "plain descriptive" and the "table/structure
>descriptive"...
>
>        plain descriptive                 table/structure descriptive
>        -----------------                 ---------------------------
>        name                              cu_name

One thing to bear in mind is that the cu_name practice is to some extent
a historical accident.  Once upon a time (in a galaxy far far away :-))
all struct members lived in a single common name space, so it was vital
to make the member names in different structures different.  This is how
the prefix-with-an-abbreviation-of-the-struct-name convention arose.

Personally I see no reason for the prefixes any more; I'll go with the
plain descriptive style now.
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