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Re: [PATCH] declarednull: rename DECLARED to NULL
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- From: Lawrence Velázquez <vq@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Subject: Re: [PATCH] declarednull: rename DECLARED to NULL
- Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 15:24:20 -0400
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On Wed, Jan 6, 2021, at 12:33 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 8:02 AM Daniel Shahaf <d.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > How about, for #1, PM_BEEN_ASSIGNED or PM_INITIALIZED?
>
> The latter was already rejected. Both of these arguably describe the
> opposite of the actual state, that is, PM_HAS_NOT_BEEN_ASSIGNED would
> be more accurate ... but Felipe has essentially argued that after
> "unset foo" the variable still has not been assigned, so why clear a
> bit with that name?
>
> PM_DECLARED_BUT_NEITHER_ASSIGNED_NOR_UNSET is just too verbose, and
> shortening it to just the first word got us into this discussion in
> the first place.
Looks like this petered out without a decision one way or the other?
vq
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