Re: struct should not be named same way as function in sony-laptop

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Jan 03 2008 - 12:09:39 EST


On Thu 2008-01-03 11:15:43, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:01:54PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Naming struct and function by same name is evil. Rename the struct.
>
> Um... why? It's not even particulary bad style per se... Occurs less
> frequently than things like
> struct foo *foo;
> but nothing inherently terrible and not likely to cause any kind of
> confusion.

Well, it confused me a lot in this particular case...
Pavel
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