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<P><FONT SIZE="5">3.3 Coding Style</FONT><BR>
<P>Although FunnelWeb wasn't coded under any formal C
coding standard, it was coded in accordance with a fairly
strict personal style of C which developed during the
development of FunnelWeb. This section aims to describe some
of the more important elements of the coding style.
<P><B>Portability:</B> This was a major
goal of the FunnelWeb implementation. Two excellent books
guided this move to portability. They were
<STRONG>[Rabinowitz90]</STRONG> (which deals with C code itself)
and <STRONG>[Horton90]</STRONG> (which deals with the portability
of various library calls). Other works such as
<STRONG>[Kernighan88]</STRONG> and <STRONG>[ANSI]</STRONG> were also
helpful.
<P><B>Identifiers:</B>
<STRONG>[Rabinowitz90]</STRONG>
specifies that for wide portability, identifiers of block
and file scope should be unique to eight characters, and
identifiers of program scope should be unique to six
characters. I have gone further in FunnelWeb and actually
made these restrictions actual limits on identifier length.
<P>Because names must be so short, a system of
abbreviations was developed to organize the identifiers used
within FunnelWeb. Each abbreviation consists of a letter
pair. Here are most of the abbreviations
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bp - Body Part.
cm - Compare. Used to prefix comparison
     routines that return [-1,0,1].
dc - Document component.
dm - Dump package.
el - Element.
eq - Equal. Used to prefix comparison
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ex - Expression.
f  - Global files.
ll - List of lists.
ln - Line record.
ls - List Package.
lr - Lister package.
ma - Macro.
mc - Macro Call.
mn - Macro Name.
op - Options package.
pr - Parser.
ps - Position record.
sc - Scrap record.
sn - Section.
tb - Table package.
ty - Typesetter directive.
wf - Write file package.
wl - Write with EOL (misc.c).
wr - Write          (misc.c).
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be named <SAMP>p_tb_t</SAMP>.
<P><B>File names:</B> All FunnelWeb source
files have file
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extensions that are from one to three characters long. This
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to all kinds of machines, including MSDOS!
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