From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 1999-07-26T02:36:38+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:00530] Re: Single char conventions in Ruby's core?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:00528] Single char conventions in Ruby's core?"
    on 99/07/25, Clemens Hintze <c.hintze@gmx.net> writes:

|In the table below, I have added all chars I have already found, an
|example of a function name, and my guess, what it means.
|
|Char	Fn Name				Guess
|---------------------------------------------------------
|_s_	rb_ary_s_new			Singleton methods
|_f_	rb_f_open			Global function
|_d_	old_d_vars			?

d_vars stands for dynamic variables, which means local variables
appear first in the block.

|_r_	reloc_r_rightshift		?

I don't remember,.. It was written years back.  I think the variable
and macro names were stolen from someone's code from USENET.  I don't
remember the detail.  Sorry.

|_b_	syserr_list_b_general		?

It's not by me.  Shugo?  I guess _b_ stands for BeOS.

                                                        matz.