std.d.lexer: pre-voting review / discussion

H. S. Teoh hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Wed Sep 11 12:57:14 PDT 2013


On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 12:13:07PM -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 9/11/2013 12:10 PM, Brian Schott wrote:
> >The choice of ending token names with underscores was made according
> >to the Phobos style guide.
> >
> >http://dlang.org/dstyle.html
> 
> I didn't realize that was in the style guide. I guess I can't
> complain about it, then :-)

I disagree. I think it's more readable to use a consistent prefix, like
kw... or kw_... (e.g. kw_int, kw_return, etc.), so that it's clear
you're referring to token types, not the actual keyword.


T

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