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From: Mitch.Bradley@ENG.SUN.COM
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Subject: Conventions
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I recommend Kim Harris's coding conventions, published
in the 1985 FORML Proceedings.

> #name -> Can mean "size of" or "number of" depending on context.
> /name -> Initialize name.

Kim's conventions use "/name" to mean "bytes per name", i.e. size of name.

> +name -name -> Turn on and turn off name.

Or "add to name" "subtract from name".  name-on name-off is also used for
turning on and off.

name: -> defining word to create a word of type "name"

Mitch.Bradley@Eng.Sun.COM