[petsc-dev] why remove underscores?

[Srinath Vadlamani]

Thanks.  As I am new to the developers list, should we expect these changes
to be implemented in PETSc 3.2?

<>Srinath

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
>   1) It violated the PETSc style guides of NOT having _'s in the names of
> XXXType.
>          The reason we have the guides is make parts of PETSc as consistent
> as possible, hence easier to remember and know immediately what type of
> thing something is.
>   2) It was very close name to the PETSC_VIEWER_XXXX_ making code harder
> for humans to parse quickly.
>
>     Barry
>
> On Jun 1, 2010, at 2:55 PM, Srinath Vadlamani wrote:
>
> Why do:
> *
>
>    - PETSC_VIEWER_XXXX is now PETSCVIEWERXXX
>
> <>Srinath
> *
>
>
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