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From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@adacore.com>
To: Torvald Riegel <triegel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Switching to C++ by default in 4.8
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> Or are you really saying that the number of characters determines how
> quickly/easily a brain can remember/find something like an API
> item/keyword/...?  If so, and if we assume that GET, FIELD, and DECL are
> the most likely (sub-)parts of function names shouldn't it be G_F_D
> (exp) then? ;)

The number of tokens.  GET_FIELD_DECL has 2 tokens (GET and FIELD_DECL) while 
exp->as_component_ref().get_field() has 3x more.

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Eric Botcazou