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From: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
To: Samuel Bronson <naesten@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Private data members
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On Wednesday 29 July 2009 Samuel Bronson wrote:

> At Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:41:20 +0400,
> Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > 
> > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > >
> > > I don't think ignore_count_ is clear.
> > 
> > Well, it's a convention for naming private variables used by roughly
> > half of C++ developers, so I expect many current and future contributors
> > know it already.
> 
> Hmm. I'm only familiar with the _ignore_count convention that's used
> in e.g. Python (and sometimes in C, even though it's not really
> allowed in user code there).

That's why I've said "half". Though I actually expected the other
half to be familiar with the m_foo convention :-)

- Volodya