On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 20:59, David James wrote:
> On 10/10/05, Madan U Sreenivasan <madan@collab.net> wrote:
> > > - Rename this function to "svn_commit_info_dup"
> > np.
> > /me wonders if theres a naming convention that I have missed reading
> > about...
> There's no official conventions for writing "deep copy" functions, but
> I'd like to make some: If a type is named "svn_foo_bar_t", the "deep
> copy" function should be called "svn_foo_bar_dup". Further, all deep
> copy functions should normally return the new object as a pointer, and
> accept the following two arguments:
> 1. A const pointer to the object you want to copy (e.g. const svn_foo_bar_t *)
> 2. The pool to use to make the deep copy
>
> These conventions make it easier for us to automatically generate code
> that uses the deep copy functions in the SWIG bindings. See r16398 for
> an example. Maybe we should document this in hacking.html?
Yes, I think so too, would wait for a coupla days tho, just in case,
anybody else wants to add to that....
Anyways, here the patch with the changes you had suggested.
Regards,
Madan.
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Received on Mon Oct 10 18:46:48 2005