From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: random832@fastmail.us (random832@fastmail.us)
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 16:37:08 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] early cc variable and function names
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2014, at 22:52, Larry McVoy wrote:
> abc.st_size
> 
> Huh, abc is a struct stat.
> 
> I get that it was a bug and needed to be fixed but I wish that everyone 
> still pretended that it was one namespace, makes code so much easier to
> read.

I'm not sure what your design is that you're more than a screen away
from either its declaration, a stat call, or the fact that it's got size
_and_ mode _and_ mtime etc.

And if you do that, why stop there? Why not require the type to be
repeated to dereference any pointer?

while(*x == 0)

is x a pointer to int, to char, to another pointer, etc?