[asterisk-dev] Reverse Inheritance

[Trevor Peirce]

John Todd wrote:
> These symbols seem fine, but in the long view it is perhaps the case
> that the "_" character was incorrect as the leading indicator for  
> forward inheritance.  It seems, logically, that "+" and "++" should  
> represent forward and infinite forward inheritance, and "-" and "--"  
> should indicate reverse and infinite reverse inheritance.   We may be  
> too far out of the gate for this type of serious change (or shift) to  
> be practical, and there may be other syntactical/parsing reasons why  
> what I think is reasonable is not a practical nomenclature.
>   

I would strongly advise against this as it starts to resemble math too 
much and could misleading. As an alternative I suggest appending _ to 
the variable name in contrast to prepending.

Forward inheritance: _variable or __variable
Reverse inheritance: variable_ or variable__

A memory technique that can be associated with this is if the variable 
name is after the _ mark, it will go to channels created after. If the 
variable name is before the _ mark, it will go to the channels created 
before.

Regards,
Trevor Peirce

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