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Re: [PATCH 12/13] revert: Introduce skip-all to cleanup sequencer data

From: Miles Bader <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:51:32

Ramkumar Ramachandra [off-list ref] writes:
Interesting side note: I'd initially wanted to use "skip_all" and
"continue", but "continue" is a C keyword.  That's why I'd reluctantly
suffixed "_oper" to both for consistency.
It seems a good idea to restrict such uglification to only those cases
where it's necessary, not make _everything_ ugly just for the sake of
consistency.....

[The traditional thing to do with C-keyword conflicts, when there's no
obvious and natural alternative, seems to just be intentional mispelling
-- "continu", "kontinue", "cont", "_continue", whatever.  Yes, they're
ugly, but people will know why you did it, and they'll forgive you.]

-Miles

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