Ben Hanson: > The underscores thing just comes from the C++ source. But once your program works well you can change the variable names a little, or even before if you have some kind of IDE.
In D style guide structs and classes need to start with an upper case, in CamelCase. And variable names are written in camelCase with a starting lower case: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/dstyle.html Following a common style guide is important. > I was recommended that > approach, as not wanting to use Reverse Polish Notation (i.e. MFC style), I think you mean polish with no reverse :-) > the underscores allow you to have a type the same name as a member var or > local var. I don't understand. Why can't you write the code like this? struct BasicStringToken { enum size_t MAX_CHARS = CharT.max + 1; enum size_t START_CHAR = cast(CharT) 0x80 < 0 ? 0x80 : 0; private bool negated = false; private CharT[] charset; this(const bool negated_, ref CharT[] charset_) { negated = negated_; charset = charset_; } I have kept the underscores in the arguments of the method because they have a limited scope/life, so they don't add a lot of noise to the whole code. Bye, bearophile
