[e-lang] Naming convention for variable holding an eventual reference

[Tyler Close]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Toby Murray
<toby.murray at comlab.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> Can someone elaborate on the problem with _ in Caja?

Caja defines a trailing _ to be the semantic equivalent of Java's
'private' keyword. Apparently Google has been using this convention
internally for a very long time.

> Could one use "_r" (remote, or "ref") as a suffix instead? I presume
> this sort of thing has been dismissed for reasons unknown.

We haven't found a suffix that we like.

--Tyler