Programming Convention Survey of the day

[Marc Clifton]

David Lockwood wrote:

assembly language does it like that:

Not all. One of the stark differences between the Intel processors and the Motorola processors was the src/dest order. Marc

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[Carlos Mariano]

First. It makes more sense. Carlos

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[thatreallybytes]

#1 makes more sense to me, too...:cool:

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[Mike Doyon]

I'd say 1. Generally speaking, I'd adhere to that logic. Also, I believe that it is common in copy methods to organize parameters as (source, destination).

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[Ponytail Bob]

#1 seems the most logical. If you renamed it CopyToRecordFromObjectArray, then #2. Peace

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[Nish Nishant]

Marc Clifton wrote:

Well, bucking the trend (as usual), whatever it's called, I would expect the destination (target) object to be the first parameter. So, #2!

That's my instinctive reaction too. We've mentally been so used to the destinatioin being the left argument. MOV ax, 9 strcpy(dest,"...") But one subtle difference in Rama's function name is that, it goes slike this :- CopyXtoY(X src_x , Y dest_y) : so here the order actually makes sense . Buthad it been Copy(Y dest_y, X src_x) : then this makes better sense.

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[Tarisai]

True true, true Numero un makes more sense

[Robert Surtees]

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[W Balboos GHB]

I prefer (1) as it is intuitive. On the other hand, before I even learned C I learned some Assembly - and got rather used to the target, source order. It was kept constant, and thus did not boggle the mind with inconsistencies. Not so fast: However, (2) has the following going for it: The best way would be to handle this by keeping the setup consistant within a given family of functions (methods, or whatever). Often this means putting the target first, and than various arguement sets would follow (called overloading these days). I do tend to like this consistency of form that target, params allows.

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[M i s t e r L i s t e r]

CopyObjectArrayToRecord( array, record )

[M i s t e r L i s t e r]

in addition, when using COM for IDispatch programming, the last parameter is usually used as the return value... so your convention follows a common practice.

[pgorbas]

The obvious order to me is the order in which the terms are written - so number 1 - the from term Array then 2- the to term records. If someone wanted it the other way they should name the method CopyRecordFromObjectArray.

[deltalmg]

All programming languages are "modern", we aren't talking about ancient arimaic or something :) int IfItAnitBroke(void[] *, void[] *) // todo make obscure as hell so nobody copies my idea

[Jasmine2501]

1 makes the most sense, but the thing is written wrong in the first place. It should be: Array.CopyTo(Record r) and/or: Record.CopyFrom(Array a)

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[Owen37]

Ahhh, the little-endian/big-endian question again. Doesn't really matter what the order is. However, your department should pick one -endian naming convention and stick to it. Cheers, Owen

[Dwayne J Baldwin]

I expect #1. What makes most sense is to never allow a developer to make this decision in the first place. Class Record Copy(array) Parameter lists are evil, period.

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[Yortw]

1. array, record ... dunno why but I always expect source before destination.

[Lost User]

#1--What did I when? And are ya ever gonna tell us your point?

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