Sun 2003-03-30 22:17, Meikel Brandmeyer (2:244/1165) wrote to andrew clarke:

 MB> This works as long as the whole source code is in one module.
 MB> Otherwise you wouldn't have the same glob in two different modules.

Yeah, you're right.  I don't know what I was thinking there.  Just use
memset(&glob, 0, sizeof glob) in the initialiser.

 MB> I had something more descriptive in mind. The prefix tells where the
 MB> functions comes from. In some sense object oriented. AreaOpen(),
 MB> AreaClose(), etc. (as example) do something with areas and come from
 MB> area.c. The prefix |--> file mapping isn't that important, but this
 MB> gives a good division of the source code. I hope you get my meaning.

Yep.  That's good for function naming.  For global variables you can have a
hierachy, eg. glob.area.count, glob.macros.count, etc.

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