On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 11:16 PM, Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 30.05.17 09:06, Greg Ewing пише: > >> Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> >>> What does "tp" stand for? Type something, I guess. >>> >> >> I think it's just short for "type". There's an old tradition >> in C of giving member names a short prefix reminiscent of >> the type they belong to. Not sure why, maybe someone thought >> it helped readability. >> > > In early ages of C structures didn't create namespaces, and member names > were globals. > That's nonsense. The reason is greppability. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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