Hi,
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Sure... hmm, the names timeout and timer themselves have something
> vagely wrong about them, but I can't quite place my finger on it,
> not a real worry though...
>
> Maybe it is that timeout is an end result, but timer is a mechanism.
> So maybe it should be 'struct interval', 'struct timeout';
> or 'struct timer', 'struct timeout_timer'.
>
> But I don't know really, it isn't a big deal.
Nick, thanks for speaking up about this.
My mistake was to make a big deal out of it, because I knew it would
confuse more people. After I got the heat for this, it seems nobody else
want to get flamed for it.
bye, Roman
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