leading underscores..

[adler at stephenadler.com (Stephen Adler)]

Thanks Kevin,

I'm looking for a coding standard alternative to the one I was using 
since the _variable
name is no good for solaris. (its ok for Linux though...) using 
m_variable will be an
good workaround.

Thanks again.

Kevin D. Clark wrote:

>Stephen Adler writes:
>
>  
>
>>I've run across an issue about using underscores in variable
>>names. I've been writing software
>>under linux for the past 15 years and I've gotten into the habit of
>>using underscores in my
>>variables names for priviate variables in a class. I tried to compile
>>my code on Solaris
>>10 x86 using the gnu compiler and it threw errors because the compiler
>>didn't like the
>>leading underscore. Does anyone have any comments on this? If a
>>leading underscore
>>is not used to private variable and functions in classes, what the
>>coding standard to indicate
>>the variable belongs to the class your coding?
>>    
>>
>
>The C standards say that identifiers with a leading underscore are
>reserved (i.e. don't use these unless you are writing libc or kernel
>code, etc.).  Example:  _write
>
>The C++ standards say that identifiers with a double underscore are
>reserved.  Example:  foo__bar
>
>Sure, you might be able to get away with using these identifiers on
>certain platforms, but the results are undefined, and, as you can see
>very clearly, you will run into problems on other platforms.
>
>
>Love it or hate it, I have found that the most common way to indicate
>that a variable is a member of a class is with a leading "m_" (for
>"member").  Like this:
>
>   class T {
>     int m_count;
>   }
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>--kevin
>  
>



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