On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 23:22 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Bad Rusty should have chosen less generic-sounding identifiers.
I actually disagree with that, for three reasons. Firstly, my namespace
didn't leak: I only appended these names to clear prefixes. Secondly,
uint is already typedefed in types.h. Thirdly, the short names are
clear and intuitive.
> Bad ISDN shouldn't have gone off and defined its own types, either.
That was poor, yes, but typedefs would have been less polluting than
#defines.
Hope that clarifies!
Rusty.
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