On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 09:38:55PM +0300, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: > > In early ages of C structures didn't create namespaces, and member > > names were globals.
> >That's nonsense. The reason is greppability. > Good reason! The first time I heard about prefixing struct members was to allow tricks like this: x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/stat.h 94:# define st_atime st_atim.tv_sec /* Backward compatibility. */ 95:# define st_mtime st_mtim.tv_sec 96:# define st_ctime st_ctim.tv_sec Which is relatively safe thanks to the prefix. David _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com