Zefram 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. > > -zefram I asked Larry in the flesh about what ax means, he didn't remember/know. I think/WAG it meant "array index", var ix, used for ALIAS: support means "interface index".Thread Previous | Thread Next