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From: datanguay@watmath.waterloo.edu (David Adrien Tanguay)
Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How do you name table/structure elements?
Message-ID: <33341@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 18 Jan 90 01:08:51 GMT
References: <1990Jan16.170217.16718@aqdata.uucp> <1990Jan17.194804.15864@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: datanguay@watmath.waterloo.edu (David Adrien Tanguay)
Organization: Software Development Group, U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <1990Jan17.194804.15864@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <1990Jan16.170217.16718@aqdata.uucp> sullivan@aqdata.uucp (Michael T. Sullivan) writes:
>>        plain descriptive                 table/structure descriptive
>>        -----------------                 ---------------------------
>>        name                              cu_name
>
>Personally I see no reason for the prefixes any more; I'll go with the
>plain descriptive style now.

My reason for using the table/structure descriptive style is to help
me follow the chain of types in an expression.
E.g.,
	expr->n_left->n_type->ty_sym->sy_name

Given that I know the prefixes, they make the expression a little more
readable for me since the types of the subexpressions can be inferred
from the element names.

David Tanguay