ANSI's new type qualifier reserved words.

David Collier-Brown daveb at geac.UUCP
Wed Mar 30 05:40:47 AEST 1988


In article <17834 at watmath.waterloo.edu> rbutterworth at watmath.waterloo.edu (Ray Butterworth) writes:
>by the current code.  Yet the word "const" has too many other
>connotations, and the English expression "volatile constant"
>is quite self contradictory.  

  The suggestion by Ray ("readonly" and "cacheable" to replace the
proposed terms) is consistant with existing C naming. The notable
example here is "static", which specifies something physical, and
very specific.  This is preferable to "private", which suggests its
purpose but not its implementation.

 --dave
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