[petsc-dev] why remove underscores?

[Barry Smith]

   Yes, they'll appear in the next full release.

   Barry

Not in patches

On Jun 1, 2010, at 4:45 PM, Srinath Vadlamani wrote:

> 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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