PATCH: provide pass-through value in bfd_elf_bfd_from_remote_memory
Andrew Cagney
ac131313@redhat.com
Thu May 22 17:46:00 GMT 2003
>> > Well, I'm more than happy to follow any existing convention. But
>> > where are there other pointers named 'context'? As far as I can see,
>> > there is no convention for naming these little pass-through pointers.
>
>>
>> I sometimes use the name `closure'.
>
>
> I like that a lot better. Closures in functional languages are so
> named exactly because they close over an environment, which is exactly
> what's going on here.
Yes, it captures the containment (or however you want to express it :-)
Andrew
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