Subject: members of struct *fs
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@per4mance.cz>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/12/1998 02:50:34
While trying to maximize code sharing between ext2fs and ffs (with
Manuel's blessing), I found out that it seems to be common practice
to prefix items of structs [fs|lfs|ext2fs] with
a prefix (l for lfs, e2 for ext2fs at least), even when the items
have same meaning.

If the names would not be prefixed, it would have nice pseudo-OO
effect, where I would just redefine the struct name and all the other code
would "just work", as long as the fs struct has appropriate items.
Has the name prefixing some reason, or is it just left-over,
it-was-so-from-day-1 thing ?
-- 
Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>	http://www.ics.muni.cz/~dolecek/
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