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On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 12:43:00 +0100, Zefram <zefram@fysh.org> wrote: > The only part that's really tradition is the specific names of the > variables. As I said, you wouldn't naturally reinvent the same names > if you were approaching the problem afresh. (A lot of people would > come up with "items" and "sp", or at least names close to those, but > "ax" is utterly arbitrary.) Outside the context of the code generated > by XS, we use the same names for these variables just because they're > the established names. That's largely what i was trying to say and i'm sorry if i did not express that clearly. Thanks a lot for expanding on what you were thinking. :) I do think that, instead of forcing people to do `sp -= items;` just to be able to iterate forwards through arguments with ++, someone would probably have instead just made a macro that points to the start of the arguments in the stack. However that is a *minor* point that got conflated into the names things and made me express myself inaccurately. -- With regards, Christian WaldeThread Previous | Thread Next