Re: Naming convention for variable holding an eventual reference

"Tyler Close" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.e.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Toby Murray
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Can someone elaborate on the problem with _ in Caja?

Caja defines a trailing _ to be the semantic equivalent of Java's
'private' keyword. Apparently Google has been using this convention
internally for a very long time.

> Could one use "_r" (remote, or "ref") as a suffix instead? I presume
> this sort of thing has been dismissed for reasons unknown.

We haven't found a suffix that we like.

--Tyler
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