On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Ben Hyde wrote:

> The mnemonic b is widely used for both buckets and brigades.

Sometimes "e" means bucket.  :)

> Buckets and brigades both have a field named "list", but one is a
> doubly linked list and the other is one of the many flavors of heap.

heh

I don't think anybody ever accused Ryan or myself of making good choices
in naming things.  Further proof I suppose.  ;)

> It's impossible to change the name of the field in buckets to something
> else because that's a public interface.
>
> Right?

Yes, until APR 2.0.

> Just maybe, it could it be argued that the list field in buckets is so
> very unlikely to be toy'd with by anything upstream, it could change.
> #define list bucket_alloc /* ;-) */

Um, no.  :-)

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