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Re: [zzdev] Re: [zzdev] Re: [zzdev] PATCH (0.55 bug): Subroutine args incorrectly propagated to curscr



On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 11:54:40PM +1100, Bek Oberin wrote:
> Andrew Pam wrote:
> > I hereby request that we avoid the & syntax altogether unless semantically
> > required, and find another way to distinguish local functions.  Perhaps we
> > should capitalise the first letter of local functions?
> 
> Ghods NO.  Don't do anything so hideously ugly and non-standard!

It's just a naming convention, and I have seen it used before.  It is
consistent with the global variables too - after all, the functions also
have global scope (within package main, anyway!)

Of course, another alternative might be to prefix all our functions with "zz_"

Cheers,
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