Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!daveb
From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ANSI's new type qualifier reserved words.
Summary: terminology
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Date: 29 Mar 88 19:40:47 GMT
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Posted: Tue Mar 29 14:40:47 1988
References: <17834@watmath.waterloo.edu>
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In article <17834@watmath.waterloo.edu> rbutterworth@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ray Butterworth) writes:
>by the current code.  Yet the word "const" has too many other
>connotations, and the English expression "volatile constant"
>is quite self contradictory.  

  The suggestion by Ray ("readonly" and "cacheable" to replace the
proposed terms) is consistant with existing C naming. The notable
example here is "static", which specifies something physical, and
very specific.  This is preferable to "private", which suggests its
purpose but not its implementation.

 --dave
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