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From: gceych@romeo.caltech.edu (Amateurgrammer)
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Subject: Re: typedef names (was: Is typedef char BUFFER[20] legal?)
Keywords: POSIX, reserved namespace
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Date: 31 Jan 91 21:02:54 GMT
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fred@mindcraft.com (Fred Zlotnick) writes...
:henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
:>paul@tredysvr.Tredydev.Unisys.COM (Paul Siu) writes:
:> . . .
:>>Can anyone also tell me what is the most common style convention for type
:>>names, I usually put them all in capitals.
:>
:>Insofar as there is a consensus, it's to put them in lower case with a
:>suffix "_t", e.g. "uid_t" as the type for userids.
: 
:While this has been the consensus, the POSIX.1 standard (ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990,
:or IEEE 1003.1-1990 if you prefer) has reserved the "_t" namespace for
:the system implementor.  (That is, application programs should not use
:symbols ending in "_t"). [deletion] My current convention is to use "_T"
:(and to use lower case letters for the rest of the type name), but I'm
:not thrilled with it.  Any suggestions?

Since my first typedefs were structures, I adopted _st as my typedef
convention, as in typedef structure { /*stuff*/ } param_st;  It's not
the best solution, but it works :-)
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