[V4REV] Constants

[Robert Brenstein]

>On 6/20/05 12:22 PM, "ron barber" <rbarber at yhb.att.ne.jp> wrote:
>
>>  I still am unclear about this notation. It has taken me a little time
>>  to understand the difference between these two styles:
>>
>>  EVDbMode    kDscDatBlbInd  = 1   kDsc_DatBlbInd   = 2   kDsc_DatBlb_Ind
>>    = 3   kDsc_Dat_Blb_Ind  = 4   kDscDatBlb_Ind  = 5   kDscDat_Blb_Ind  =
>>  6   kDscDatInd_Blb  = 7   kDsc_DatInd_Blb  = 8
>>
>>  EVFlag   fNone      = 0   fNullable     = 1   fIndexed     = 2
>>  fUnique     = 4   fIndexByWords   = 8   fCompressed    = 32   fMethod
>>     = 64
>>
>>  Those that begin with f can be combined "fIndexed fUnique" as one
>>  parameter whereas those with k are one single constant. So obvious and
>>  yet so foreign to my narrow xtalk world and small brain ; )
>
>Ron,
>
>All constants start with 'k'
>
>Only field flags ion historical reason go with 'f'
>
>Here there is no any big idea behind.
>Just  fIndexed was more nice than kIndexed.
>
>May be there is sense add kIndexed
>and still support fIndexed, but remove it from docs,
>So all new developers will write kIndexed...

or kFlagIndexed to make them even more verbatim and reduce chances 
for duplication.

Robert