5.22.3 Structure Naming Convention

The field names that come to (my) mind are often quite generic, and, if used, would cause frequent name clashes. E.g., many structures probably contain a counter field. The structure names that come to (my) mind are often also the logical choice for the names of words that create such a structure.

Therefore, I have adopted the following naming conventions:

• The names of fields are of the form struct-field, where struct is the basic name of the structure, and field is the basic name of the field. You can think of field words as converting the (address of the) structure into the (address of the) field.

• The names of structures are of the form struct%, where struct is the basic name of the structure.

This naming convention does not work that well for fields of extended structures; e.g., the integer list structure has a field intlist-int, but has list-next, not intlist-next.