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Re: [PATCH] declarednull: rename DECLARED to NULL



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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