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On 12/17/2013 05:38 AM, bulk88 wrote: > 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". > ISTR ax and ix being hardware register names in some assembly language on some platformThread Previous | Thread Next