On 16 April 2007 12:08, Václav Haisman wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
>> On 16 April 2007 10:34, Chelton Evans wrote:
>>
>>> I believe it is legal to have a C++ variable name with a leading
>>> underscore.
>>
>> No. All names beginning with an underscore are reserved for the
>> implementation.
>>
> Nit pick, IIRC only names that start with underscore and capital letter
> or that start with double underscores are reserved. Single underscore
> and small letter should be available to users.
Thanks for the correction. I'm referring to the C standard; I think C++
follows basically the same rules but don't have a spec handy to refer to.
FTR, the relevant section is 7.1.3, which lists the following rules:
- All identifiers that begin with an underscore and either an uppercase letter
or another underscore are always reserved for any use.
- All identifiers that begin with an underscore are always reserved for use as
identifers with file scope in both the ordinary and tag name spaces.
cheers,
DaveK
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