On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 10:15:02AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Maybe we should stick to the established practice of the many, many > reentrant POSIX functions following the *_r() naming convention? I.e. > the reentrant version of localtime() is called localtime_r(), the > reentrant version of random() is called random_r() etc. > > So I could see myself not needing an explanation if I had read > sha1_to_hex_r(...).
I like this suggestion. By itself, the "_r" does not communicate as much as "_to" to me, but as long as the reader knows the "_r" idiom, it communicates much more. I'll switch to this unless there is any objection. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
