Serhiy Storchaka storchaka at gmail.com
Tue May 30 14:38:55 EDT 2017

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30.05.17 18:38, Guido van Rossum пише:
> On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 11:16 PM, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com 
> <mailto:storchaka at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     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.
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> 
> That's nonsense. The reason is greppability.

Good reason!

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