Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue May 30 02:06:39 EDT 2017

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Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> What does "tp" stand for? Type something, I guess.

I think it's just short for "type". There's an old tradition
in C of giving member names a short prefix reminiscent of
the type they belong to. Not sure why, maybe someone thought
it helped readability.

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Greg

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