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Re: Why doesn't this multiple virtual inheritance code compile?

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On 01/ 4/12 02:19 PM, Leigh Johnston wrote:
> On 04/01/2012 01:14, Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
>> On 03.01.2012 22:51, Leigh Johnston wrote:
>>>
>>> For good examples of using the same naming convention for both types and
>>> functions see the C++ standard library.
>>
>> The standard library operates under conditions that normal code does not:
>>
>> (a) It is guaranteed to be used a lot by everybody.
>>
>> (a1) all serious users become familiar with the names. This means that
>> for the standard library it is more important to reduce typing effort
>> (having short names) than to reduce interpretation and recognition
>> effort (having self-describing names). Aiming for the latter would just
>> be wasted effort.
>>
>> (a2) since much of it is template based code, short names and terse
>> coding style help to reduce compile times. look at the code written pjp
>> (e.g. for visual c++'s standard library). it is horrible by the
>> standards of ordinary application programming, where clarity is the main
>> concern, but it it is near ideal for fast compilation.
>>
>> (a3) bugs are much more likely to surface early and repeatedly, than
>> with ordinary application code. again this reduced the need for clarity.
>>
>> (b) It can be and in some parts has to be system- and compiler-specific.
>> If some particular piece of code is not part of the developers have
>> aimed to make portable (to reduce the total effort), then it can be
>> written in any compiler- and system-dependent way, whatever the
>> developer regards as easiest. This is generally not so for ordinary
>> application code.
>>
>> In short, do not look to the standard library for naming and formatting
>> conventions for ordinary application code.
>>
>> The standard library is not ordinary application code: it operates under
>> a totally different set of rules.
>
> There can only be one response to the above verbiage: LOL!

Why?

I've worked on a lot of projects with almost as many coding standards 
and I don't think the standard library naming conventions would be 
acceptable under any of them.  All of my current clients have some form 
of different naming convention for types rule.

-- 
Ian Collins

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Why doesn't this multiple virtual inheritance code compile? Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@gmail.com> - 2012-01-02 12:16 -0800
  Re: Why doesn't this multiple virtual inheritance code compile? Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> - 2012-01-02 15:36 -0600
    Re: Why doesn't this multiple virtual inheritance code compile? Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@gmail.com> - 2012-01-02 14:41 -0800
      Re: Why doesn't this multiple virtual inheritance code compile? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-01-03 11:54 +1300
      Re: Why doesn't this multiple virtual inheritance code compile? "Paul" <pchrist<nospam>or@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-01-02 23:56 +0000
        Re: Why doesn't this multiple virtual inheritance code compile? Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@gmail.com> - 2012-01-02 20:25 -0800
          Re: Why doesn't this multiple virtual inheritance code compile? Marcel Müller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.com> - 2012-01-03 12:46 +0100
          Re: Why doesn't this multiple virtual inheritance code compile? "Paul" <pchrist<nospam>or@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-01-03 16:34 +0000
      Re: Why doesn't this multiple virtual inheritance code compile? Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> - 2012-01-03 01:20 -0600
        Re: Why doesn't this multiple virtual inheritance code compile? Goran <goran.pusic@gmail.com> - 2012-01-02 23:52 -0800
        Re: Why doesn't this multiple virtual inheritance code compile? "Paul" <pchrist<nospam>or@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-01-03 15:42 +0000
        Re: Why doesn't this multiple virtual inheritance code compile? Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@gmail.com> - 2012-01-03 13:35 -0800
  Re: Why doesn't this multiple virtual inheritance code compile? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-01-02 16:23 -0600
    Re: Why doesn't this multiple virtual inheritance code compile? Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@gmail.com> - 2012-01-02 14:43 -0800
  Re: Why doesn't this multiple virtual inheritance code compile? "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-01-03 00:46 +0100
    Re: Why doesn't this multiple virtual inheritance code compile? Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@gmail.com> - 2012-01-02 20:38 -0800
      Re: Why doesn't this multiple virtual inheritance code compile? Spike <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-03 09:35 +0100
        Re: Why doesn't this multiple virtual inheritance code compile? Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankevitz@gmail.com> - 2012-01-03 13:39 -0800
    Re: Why doesn't this multiple virtual inheritance code compile? Leigh Johnston <leigh@i42.co.uk> - 2012-01-03 21:51 +0000
      Re: Why doesn't this multiple virtual inheritance code compile? "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-01-04 02:14 +0100
        Re: Why doesn't this multiple virtual inheritance code compile? Leigh Johnston <leigh@i42.co.uk> - 2012-01-04 01:19 +0000
          Re: Why doesn't this multiple virtual inheritance code compile? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-01-04 15:15 +1300
            Re: Why doesn't this multiple virtual inheritance code compile? Leigh Johnston <leigh@i42.co.uk> - 2012-01-04 02:58 +0000
        Re: Why doesn't this multiple virtual inheritance code compile? jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2012-01-04 20:45 +0000
  Re: Why doesn't this multiple virtual inheritance code compile? Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2012-01-03 06:26 +0000
  Re: Why doesn't this multiple virtual inheritance code compile? jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2012-01-03 14:12 +0000

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