[chbot] naming of variables

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Ohh! Yes 

 Charles Manning <cdhmanning at gmail.com> wrote:

>Jack has said to me he can add a Chch leg to his Australia/NZ trip if
>he gets 15 attendees.
>
>Is there enough interest?
>
>
>On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Volker Kuhlmann
><list0570 at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>> On Thu 06 Aug 2015 09:55:58 NZST +1200, Michael Field wrote:
>>
>>> I strongly
>>> agree with like adding units on variable that hold quantities.
>>
>> Yes! No confusion about their scale.
>>
>>> I sit on
>>> the fence of the "uint8_t" vs "unsigned char" debate.
>>
>> No way!! char is NOT guaranteed to be one byte. It is guaranteed to be
>> the smallest quantity the architecture can handle, so it's
>> architecture-specific. Bad news. I was programming some TI DSPs once,
>> 32bit architecture, no byte instructions, you wanted to store a
>> character, that's 32 bits thanks. And sizeof(char) is guaranteed equal
>> to 1, so you're stuffed. That's why uint8_t became necessary - it's a
>> hardware abstraction. On that DSP the compiler would have to substitute
>> multiple instructions, but it stays 8 bits.
>>
>> And the best thing about Jack Ganssle is, he is allowed to have his
>> opinions... ;-)))
>>
>> Volker
>>
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