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From: scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker)
Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How do you name table/structure elements?
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Date: 17 Jan 90 16:14:43 GMT
References: <1990Jan16.170217.16718@aqdata.uucp>
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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". 
>[example deleted]

I've seen a lot of older code that used "table/structure descriptive" field
names.  This is probably because old C compilers did not keep seperate
name spaces for field names.  Therefore, if you had a field called "len"
that appeared in several different structures you would probably have
to make it unique somehow.  Today's compilers are a little smarter
and a I prefer to let the structure variable (or pointer) itself act
as the "qualifier".

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Scott Amspoker
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