deffbeff » C++ http://www.deffbeff.com/blog Mostly software Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:00:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 underscore t reserved! http://www.deffbeff.com/blog/2009/12/underscore-t-reserved/ http://www.deffbeff.com/blog/2009/12/underscore-t-reserved/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:59:35 +0000 Matthew Gilbert http://www.deffbeff.com/blog/2009/12/underscore-t-reserved/ Through a recent stackoverflow question I learned that Posix reserves any identifier ending in “_t”. News to me! I really liked naming my classes starting with a lowercase letter and ending in an “_t”. This permits code like: 

     class list_t { };
     ...
     int
     main(int argc, char *argv[])
     {
          list_t list;
     }

This pretty much forces me to start any type in the global namespace with a capitol letter (not my preference). To keep things consistent, that means all my classes/structs will now start with a capitol letter. See here for the posix rules.

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