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"Jeff Hill" <[email protected]> · Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:17:05 -0600

In my experience, If the header is to be included in a C program then the // style comments are a bad idea - even if a modern C++ aware compiler is compiling the xxx.c code. 

So we can adopt to future trends, it is probably a good idea to get rid of the C++ keywords form all legacy C codes C in base, but then again I can't hide my C++ biases. 

Jeff
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:core-talk-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Ralph Lange
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 8:40 AM
> To: EPICS Core Talk
> Subject: Using C++ keywords as variable names in C code
> 
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I found that db_access.c is using the C++ keyword "new" as a variable
> name. While this is of course valid code, it confuses IDEs, syntax
> highlighting editors and such, so I would probably consider it bad
> practice.
> Has anybody considered fixing this issue? Else I would create a branch
> for it and get it done. While I'm at it - any other C++ keywords I
> should rename? Should I enforce straight C comments instead of C++ style
> "//" comments, too? Or are all compilers accepting these nowadays?
> 
> Cheers,
> Ralph

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