Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net> writes:
> > I find the name a bit wierd, BTW -- it sounds like it's going to return
> > the _value_ of the symbol. How about something like `symbol_addr' instead?
>
> Surely the value of a symbol is precisely that: an address.
Perhaps; but in my mind the concept of `symbol' (in C) is sort of fuzzy,
and conflated with the objects to which they refer. If I see
x = symbol_get(some_variable);
it _looks_, at first glance, like it's going to return the value of
some_variable (maybe this simply indicates that I'm a moron, but anyway).
This:
x = symbol_addr(some_variable);
is a whole lot more obvious, I think, regardless of how clued in you are.
-Miles
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