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CSET is unnecessarily confusing

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Message #46 received at 12215 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov <at> yandex.ru>, 12215 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: bug#12215: CSET is unnecessarily confusing
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:57:48 -0700

On 08/23/2012 08:46 PM, Chong Yidong wrote:
> Maybe we could use macros that are a no-op under CPP, and serve only as
> guides for a non-CPP code transformation tool.

How about if we use a naming convention that the code transformation
tool could pick out?  That is, instead of

  bset_directory (b, current_buffer ? BVAR (current_buffer, directory) : Qnil);

we have something like this:

  b->Directory = current_buffer ? current_buffer->Directory : Qnil;

Here the convention is that the Lisp field names start with
a capital letter.  Almost any naming convention will do.

This is straight C, so the preprocessor would not need to be
used until we have a garbage collector that needs it.

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