Re: [Moose-g3-devel] variables with appended underscore

[Hugo C. <hug...@gm...>]

I thought that private variable are normally _prefixed_ with an
underscore ?  Is there a specific reason to deviate from the common
convention ?


Hugo


On 8/22/06, Upinder S. Bhalla <bh...@nc...> wrote:
> Hi, Greg,
>    Yes, this is a bit confusing. I haven't really prioritized it, but it
> should be possible to massage the preprocessor to deal with these
> cases. The reasoning goes like this: All private variables have an
> appended underscore. Public field names (which may be associated with a
> private variable) do not. However, in the preprocessor .mh file we
> sometimes need to define operations on private variables. At this point
> the preprocessor just lets those lines through into the generated
> files, so we end up using a mix of Vm and Vm_ variable names. It is
> easy to keep track of if you remember when you are writing a function
> that talks to the private fields.
>
> Hope this helps,
>    Upi
>
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> On Wed, August 23, 2006 4:37 am, Greg Hood said:
> > Upi,
> > In the Moose developers guide the MyClass example has several variables
> > with an underscore appended (e.g., Vm_), but these are not declared
> > anywhere
> > that I can see.  I see similar occurrences in the CaConc.mh and
> > Compartment.mh files.  Are these variables somehow automatically declared?
> > In Compartment.mh, some of these (A_, B_) are declared in the "private:"
> > section, but others (Im_, Ra_) are not, so this is very confusing.
> > --Greg
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