<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1251"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">If I had to describe this algorithm in English, I’d say, “Collect and retain all the [auto] from the list of parsed parameters.” I think that explanation would be stronger if “[auto]” were a concrete noun.</div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>The variable and the function are both named pattern and I would use that as the noun.</div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Question for Geoff or anyone who knows: is it contextually useful to know that it's specifically a "DeconstructionPatternNode*" beyond knowing that it's a "pattern”?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div>For me, knowing that it’s a “DeconstructionPatternNode” tells me where to go in source code to find out more. Namely:<div><br></div><div>- Why do we need manual reference counting here? (Answer: DeconstructionPatternNode allocates variable-sized storage within itself, and aliases that storage as untyped memory.)</div><div><br></div><div>- Is this normal reference counting, or something weird? (Answer: DeconstructionPatternNode inherits from RefCounted<DeconstructionPatternNode>, so this is normal reference counting.)</div><div><br></div><div>Geoff</div></body></html>