Naming Conventions

This chapter describes in general the names or identifiers that have been chosen to access constants, data types or functions of this library.

All identifiers of this library begin with sci_ or SCI_, the latter applies only to macros and constants. By this, identifiers from this library can be easily recognized in the source-code of other programs.

Macros and constants defined in enum-statements consist only of capital letters. Functions consist only of small letters, types have at least one capital letter in their name, that letter is always followed by a small letter.

Note that versions of sci prior to version 2.0 used type-names that had the same spelling as the currently used but consisted only of small letters. Whether your sci library supports this old naming convention by macro definitions depends on your implementation of sci.