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

[Josef S. <js...@ya...>]

Agreed, but also to avoid possible confusion with lower-level libraries. If we
were doing system-level work (up through code development tools, maybe), we
might use a single or even double leading underscore.


--- "Upinder S. Bhalla" <bh...@nc...> wrote:

> Dear Hugo,
> 
> I'm following
> 
>  http://geosoft.no/development/cppstyle.html
> 
> See item 11.
> 
> -- Upi
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, August 23, 2006 8:04 pm, Hugo Cornelis said:
> > 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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