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On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 11:16 PM, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 30.05.17 09:06, Greg Ewing пише:
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>> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
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>>> What does "tp" stand for? Type something, I guess.
>>>
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>> 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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> In early ages of C structures didn't create namespaces, and member names
> were globals.
>

That's nonsense. The reason is greppability.


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