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From: poser@csli.Stanford.EDU (Bill Poser)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: long identifiers
Keywords: identifiers
Message-ID: <16047@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 25 Oct 90 23:27:57 GMT
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Reply-To: poser@csli.stanford.edu (Bill Poser)
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I know of a guy who used a coding scheme for the names of
his Fortran subroutines. He encoded things like the number of parameters
and the type of the result, e.g. i6b23 for a routine that returned an
int and took six parameters etc. Very helpful in figuring out what the
subroutine does.