RE: [Plib-devel] PLIB developers needed.

[Paul B. <pbl...@di...>]

>From: Dave McClurg [mailto:Dav...@dy...]
>Subject: RE: [Plib-devel] PLIB developers needed.
>
> for private functions, use all_lower_case unless they would 
> pollute the name space in which case you should use _xxMixedCase
> (note the leading underscore).  if a variable pollutes the name 
> space, use _xxMixedCase. 

Note that this technically goes against the portability aspect
of PLIB as identifiers in the global and std:: namespaces starting 
with '_' and '__' are reserved for the implementation in ANSI C++.

http://oakroadsystems.com/tech/cppredef.htm#Groups

I know it is used by alot of code and I do it too, but I thought
it should at least be known.  I get killed by it everytime I
write a header file:

#ifndef __Foo_h__
#define __Foo_h__
#endif

is discouraged (because the two leading underscores) as the
implementation (compiler) may legally predefine those values.

Paul