[227] in Kerberos
Re: Kerberos function names
daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (Bill Sommerfeld)
Fri Oct 23 14:47:08 1987
To: Jon Rochlis <jon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: treese@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 23 Oct 87 14:23:40 -0400.
From: Bill Sommerfeld <wesommer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
[oops: this got sent too soon]
I second Jon's motion... In addition to being hard to read, the X
names are also incredibly hard to type. Usually, I wind up
capitalizing one more or one less letter than I have to. You have to
shift for underscores, too, but that's further off the keyboard, so
it's less likely that you'll make the mistake when typing. Of course,
LISP-style names using '-' instead of '_' are even easier to type.
A prefix of krb_ would be appropriate; kerberos_ is too long.
'$' is not strictly a legal character in C identifiers, by ANSI C
specs; PCC accepts it, but other utilities, like "indent", tend to
break it. It also brings back bad memories of 6.170 and 6.035
(although I think that the use of $ in CLU was ripped off from
Multics..)
- Bill
