Re: [Json] Doofus Parameter Labels
Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com> Mon, 30 March 2015 22:35 UTC
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Subject: Re: [Json] Doofus Parameter Labels
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On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Wendy Roome <w.roome@alcatel-lucent.com> wrote: > It would help if you told us which draft and which code generator you are > using. The draft is water under the bridge at this point. The code generator is ProtoGen. > My first reaction is that if the code generator is supposed to generate > real code that you can feed directly into a compiler, then the code > generator should ensure that it generates legal code. Eg, if it maps a > protocol field into a variable, the code gen should transmogrify the > protocol field name into a valid variable name. The issue is not the difficulty of transmogrification in the generator, it is remembering what the transmogrification is in my head. Programming is a process of getting ideas into electronic form. The more unnecessary hoops people have to jump through, the greater the probability of error. > Simplest solution is to > slap a fixed prefix, like m_, onto every generated variable, and replace > non-alpha-num chars with _. > > My second reaction is why can¹t you do that yourself? The problem comes when you are using two code generators that have different ways of coping with the problem. The choice of labels is arbitrary. Why make choices that introduce unnecessary complexity?
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- Re: [Json] Doofus Parameter Labels Wendy Roome
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- Re: [Json] Doofus Parameter Labels Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: [Json] Doofus Parameter Labels Nico Williams