From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/11] strvec: rename struct fields
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 11:03:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqd04eb3ld.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200729163419.GC2320983@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Wed, 29 Jul 2020 12:34:19 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>> Using "str" would be consistent with oid_array where the individual
>> component is called "oid" as it is defined this way:
>>
>> struct oid_array {
>> struct object_id *oid;
>> size_t nr;
>> size_t alloc;
>> int sorted;
>> };
>
> Yeah, I agree "str" is a reasonable name, and probably better than
> "elem" or "items". I do still like the super-concise "v" better, though.
One problem with names like "str", "string", and "oid" is that it
leads to this stupid pattern:
struct oid_array *oid;
oid_to_hex(oid->oid[0], ...);
We know the thing is object name by the pointer variable having the
name oid already---there is no need to repeat we are talking about
oid again with the field name.
So, "str" being consistent with "oid_array" is not necessarily a
plus.
Ultra-concise v[] that stands for value, or e[] that stands for
element, do not share this problem.
One plus about the redundant field name is that it is easier to run
grep -E -e "([.]|->)oid"
but I do not know how important that is.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-29 18:04 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 [this message]
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
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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=xmqqd04eb3ld.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com \
--to=gitster@pobox.com \
--cc=christian.couder@gmail.com \
--cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=peff@peff.net \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://80x24.org/mirrors/git.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).