[Zlib-devel] A poor choice of names.

Cosmin Truta cosmin at cs.toronto.edu
Fri Feb 13 17:39:05 EST 2004


On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Tim Kientzle wrote:

> The use of the name 'err' as a parameter name in the
> public zlib.h header is causing me some headaches.

Ok, maybe a name like "errcode" should solve your problem. Although I
question the legitimacy of a warning or any other complaint regarding
the name of a formal parameter, which is not a homonyom of a standard
library symbol, is not uppercase, and does not start with underscores.

Cosmin




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