From: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/11] renaming argv_array
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 18:08:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <82991f30-fe37-d6d2-ffd5-8b0878f46c83@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200728202124.GA1021264@coredump.intra.peff.net>
Am 28.07.20 um 22:21 schrieb Jeff King:
> The argv_array data type has turned out to be useful in our code base,
> but the name isn't very good. From patch 2 of this series:
>
> The name "argv-array" isn't very good, because it describes what the
> data type can be used for (program argument arrays), not what it
> actually is (a dynamically-growing string array that maintains a
> NULL-terminator invariant). This leads to people being hesitant to use
> it for other cases where it would actually be a good fit. The existing
> name is also clunky to use. It's overly long, and the name often leads
> to saying things like "argv.argv" (i.e., the field names overlap with
> variable names, since they're describing the use, not the type). Let's
> give it a more neutral name.
>
> This has bugged me for a while, so I decided to finally fix it. It
> wasn't _too_ painful, though I'm sure there will be a little fallout
> with topics in flight.
Just as this landed in master now, https://lobste.rs/ decided to link to
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2493.pdf, which is a
paper about reserved identifiers in C. It contains a nice overview.
Anyway, 7.31 of C11 says: "All external names described below are
reserved no matter what headers are included by the program." And
7.31.13 goes on: "Function names that begin with str, mem, or wcs and a
lowercase letter may be added to the declarations in the <string.h>
header." So the names of the strvec functions are reserved.
Also how about using Coccinelle and patience to reduce the impact of
such a change next time? I.e. adding the new thing, providing a
semantic patch for converting old code, waiting a reasonable amount of
time after the last conversion was necessary and then removing the
old thing.
René
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-11 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-28 20:21 [PATCH 0/11] renaming argv_array Jeff King
2020-07-28 20:21 ` [PATCH 01/11] argv-array: use size_t for count and alloc Jeff King
2020-07-28 20:23 ` [PATCH 02/11] argv-array: rename to strvec Jeff King
2020-07-28 20:23 ` [PATCH 03/11] strvec: rename files from argv-array " Jeff King
2020-07-28 20:24 ` [PATCH 04/11] quote: rename sq_dequote_to_argv_array to mention strvec Jeff King
2020-07-28 20:24 ` [PATCH 05/11] strvec: convert builtin/ callers away from argv_array name Jeff King
2020-07-28 20:24 ` [PATCH 06/11] strvec: convert more " Jeff King
2020-07-28 20:25 ` [PATCH 07/11] strvec: convert remaining " Jeff King
2020-07-28 20:26 ` [PATCH 08/11] strvec: fix indentation in renamed calls Jeff King
2020-07-28 22:43 ` Jacob Keller
2020-07-28 23:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-28 20:26 ` [PATCH 09/11] strvec: update documention to avoid argv_array Jeff King
2020-07-28 20:27 ` [PATCH 10/11] strvec: drop argv_array compatibility layer Jeff King
2020-07-28 22:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-29 0:04 ` Jeff King
2020-07-29 0:37 ` Jeff King
2020-07-29 0:40 ` Jeff King
2020-07-29 0:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-29 16:54 ` Derrick Stolee
2020-07-29 0:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-29 16:22 ` Jeff King
2020-07-28 20:28 ` [PATCH 11/11] strvec: rename struct fields Jeff King
2020-07-28 21:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-28 21:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-29 6:55 ` Christian Couder
2020-07-29 16:34 ` Jeff King
2020-07-29 18:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-07-28 21:20 ` Jeff King
2020-07-28 22:45 ` [PATCH 0/11] renaming argv_array Jacob Keller
2020-07-29 0:06 ` Jeff King
2020-07-29 6:15 ` Christian Couder
2020-07-29 6:19 ` Christian Couder
2020-07-29 13:32 ` Eric Sunshine
2020-07-29 16:33 ` Jeff King
2020-08-11 16:08 ` René Scharfe [this message]
2020-08-11 18:28 ` Taylor Blau
2020-08-11 19:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-11 20:39 ` Jacob Keller
2020-08-11 21:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-08-12 12:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-08-12 15:06 ` Jeff King
2020-08-12 15:10 ` Jeff King
2020-08-12 16:23 ` René Scharfe
2020-08-12 17:08 ` Jeff King
2020-08-12 18:18 ` René Scharfe
2020-08-12 19:57 ` Jeff King
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