Re: Criteria for Acceptable Git to ChangeLog

[John Darrington]

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 10:50:23PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
     
        > * functions
        > * variables not in global scope
     
     I'm not sure how to understand "not in global scope".
     Could you clarify that?

I mean a varible which is not local to a function, and is not declared static.
     
     Anyway, entities in C include functions, file-scope structures,
     file-scope unions, file-scope variables, and macros.  In C++ they
     would also include class definitions -- and is there anything else?

I hadn't thought about c++ much.  classes are not a problem.  They are just 
special cases of structs.  However things like templates can make the 
parsing rather tricky.
     
     In most cases, an entity is a maximal syntactic construct.
     However, if something is not maximal but has an
     openbrace in column zero, it is also an entity.

I don't know what the term "maximal syntactic construct" means.  Can
you explain.

J'
     
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