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  • J Jim Crafton

    Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:

    Do I see a contradiction here?

    But of course! This is all completely subjective, except for the fact that I'm right and you're wrong, VIM sucks, and using the underscore as you're proposing will undoubtedly lead to the end of the Union, and a take over of the State by leftist-grave-robbing-breast-feeding-thumb-sucking-whiner-socialists.

    ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! VCF Blog Just Say No to Web 2 Point Oh

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    Nemanja Trifunovic
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    Jim Crafton wrote:

    using the underscore as you're proposing

    See - you got it all wrong - I am not proposing using the underscore, but switching to Lisp.

    Jim Crafton wrote:

    VIM sucks

    OK sir, this is getting personal now. You can have an opinion on camel casing, but don't bad mouth The Editor.

    Programming Blog utf8-cpp

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    • N Nemanja Trifunovic

      Why most programmers (at least Windows and Java programmers) use this horrible notation? It is both hard to write and hard to read:

      GetMyPreciousDataFromAnXMLFile()

      With undrescores it is at least easy to read if not to write:

      get_my_precious_data_from_an_XML_file()

      And of course, there is always a way to make it easy to write but hard to read:

      getmypreciousdatafromanXMLfile()

      Lispers have the best of both worlds (well, except for the parentheses):

      (get-my-precious-data-from-an-XML-file)

      I feel better now - feel free to vote me down :)

      Programming Blog utf8-cpp

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      Nish Nishant
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      Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:

      GetMyPreciousDataFromAnXMLFile()

      I find this to be quite readable.

      Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:

      get_my_precious_data_from_an_XML_file()

      On the other hand, this I find to be ugly and slightly harder to read. My brain is auto-wired to recognize a new word when it sees an upper case letter, but with an underscore not so much.

      Regards, Nish


      Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
      My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com link

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      • N Nemanja Trifunovic

        Why most programmers (at least Windows and Java programmers) use this horrible notation? It is both hard to write and hard to read:

        GetMyPreciousDataFromAnXMLFile()

        With undrescores it is at least easy to read if not to write:

        get_my_precious_data_from_an_XML_file()

        And of course, there is always a way to make it easy to write but hard to read:

        getmypreciousdatafromanXMLfile()

        Lispers have the best of both worlds (well, except for the parentheses):

        (get-my-precious-data-from-an-XML-file)

        I feel better now - feel free to vote me down :)

        Programming Blog utf8-cpp

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        Jim SS
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        What is all this camel case, pascal case, underscores. I don't need any of them if keep my variables to 6 characters (1 character is preferred). ;P p.s. see my signature

        SS => Qualified in Submarines "We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm". Winston Churchill "Real programmers can write Fortran in any language". Unknown

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        • J Jim SS

          What is all this camel case, pascal case, underscores. I don't need any of them if keep my variables to 6 characters (1 character is preferred). ;P p.s. see my signature

          SS => Qualified in Submarines "We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm". Winston Churchill "Real programmers can write Fortran in any language". Unknown

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          Christopher Duncan
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          Jim (SS) wrote:

          "We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm". Winston Churchill

          If I could choose only one person in history to have a few drinks with...

          Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalUSA.com

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          • R Russell Jones

            underscores overstretch my right little finger though and i wouldn't want to get RSI from continually typing underscores or hyphens

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            bulg
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            #30

            Russell Jones wrote:

            underscores overstretch my right little finger though and i wouldn't want to get RSI from continually typing underscores or hyphens

            try using your right ring finger.

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            • J Jim SS

              What is all this camel case, pascal case, underscores. I don't need any of them if keep my variables to 6 characters (1 character is preferred). ;P p.s. see my signature

              SS => Qualified in Submarines "We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm". Winston Churchill "Real programmers can write Fortran in any language". Unknown

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              Gary Wheeler
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              #31

              Jim (SS) wrote:

              "Real programmers can write Fortran in any language". Unknown

              Real programmers spell it FORTRAN like God, IBM, and other TLA's intended.

              Software Zen: delete this;

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              • J Jim Crafton

                Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:

                Do I see a contradiction here?

                But of course! This is all completely subjective, except for the fact that I'm right and you're wrong, VIM sucks, and using the underscore as you're proposing will undoubtedly lead to the end of the Union, and a take over of the State by leftist-grave-robbing-breast-feeding-thumb-sucking-whiner-socialists.

                ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! VCF Blog Just Say No to Web 2 Point Oh

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                bulg
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                #32

                Jim Crafton wrote:

                using the underscore as you're proposing will undoubtedly lead to the end of the Union, and a take over of the State by leftist-grave-robbing-breast-feeding-thumb-sucking-whiner-socialists

                You may be Right.

                Jim Crafton wrote:

                VIM sucks

                Then again, you're probably just lost. Try fid=2605.

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                • G Gary Wheeler

                  Jim (SS) wrote:

                  "Real programmers can write Fortran in any language". Unknown

                  Real programmers spell it FORTRAN like God, IBM, and other TLA's intended.

                  Software Zen: delete this;

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                  Jim SS
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #33

                  Gary Wheeler wrote:

                  spell it FORTRAN

                  I was wondering how many other people even knew that. Even C# and Java still allow GOTOs, so the statement is still true.:cool:

                  SS => Qualified in Submarines "We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm". Winston Churchill "Real programmers can write FORTRAN in any language". Unknown

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                  • N Nish Nishant

                    Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:

                    GetMyPreciousDataFromAnXMLFile()

                    I find this to be quite readable.

                    Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:

                    get_my_precious_data_from_an_XML_file()

                    On the other hand, this I find to be ugly and slightly harder to read. My brain is auto-wired to recognize a new word when it sees an upper case letter, but with an underscore not so much.

                    Regards, Nish


                    Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
                    My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com link

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                    Eytukan
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                    So you are already here :laugh: . lol I was quickly looking for the "familiar" names that have replied to this thread. funny. You are there :)

                    Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.

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                    • N Nemanja Trifunovic

                      Why most programmers (at least Windows and Java programmers) use this horrible notation? It is both hard to write and hard to read:

                      GetMyPreciousDataFromAnXMLFile()

                      With undrescores it is at least easy to read if not to write:

                      get_my_precious_data_from_an_XML_file()

                      And of course, there is always a way to make it easy to write but hard to read:

                      getmypreciousdatafromanXMLfile()

                      Lispers have the best of both worlds (well, except for the parentheses):

                      (get-my-precious-data-from-an-XML-file)

                      I feel better now - feel free to vote me down :)

                      Programming Blog utf8-cpp

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                      Eytukan
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                      Camel for president.

                      Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.

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                      • N Nemanja Trifunovic

                        Why most programmers (at least Windows and Java programmers) use this horrible notation? It is both hard to write and hard to read:

                        GetMyPreciousDataFromAnXMLFile()

                        With undrescores it is at least easy to read if not to write:

                        get_my_precious_data_from_an_XML_file()

                        And of course, there is always a way to make it easy to write but hard to read:

                        getmypreciousdatafromanXMLfile()

                        Lispers have the best of both worlds (well, except for the parentheses):

                        (get-my-precious-data-from-an-XML-file)

                        I feel better now - feel free to vote me down :)

                        Programming Blog utf8-cpp

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                        Eytukan
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                        #36

                        Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:

                        getmypreciousdatafromanXMLfile()

                        You are really cunning. :laugh: That's not a camel, that's a snake with a big ass. A real camel would look something like this:

                        getMyPreciousDataFromAnXMLFile

                        Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.

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                        • N Nemanja Trifunovic

                          Why most programmers (at least Windows and Java programmers) use this horrible notation? It is both hard to write and hard to read:

                          GetMyPreciousDataFromAnXMLFile()

                          With undrescores it is at least easy to read if not to write:

                          get_my_precious_data_from_an_XML_file()

                          And of course, there is always a way to make it easy to write but hard to read:

                          getmypreciousdatafromanXMLfile()

                          Lispers have the best of both worlds (well, except for the parentheses):

                          (get-my-precious-data-from-an-XML-file)

                          I feel better now - feel free to vote me down :)

                          Programming Blog utf8-cpp

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                          Hans Dietrich
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                          why_the_hell_is_XML_always_capitalized?

                          Best wishes, Hans


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                          • G Gary Wheeler

                            Jim (SS) wrote:

                            "Real programmers can write Fortran in any language". Unknown

                            Real programmers spell it FORTRAN like God, IBM, and other TLA's intended.

                            Software Zen: delete this;

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                            PIEBALDconsult
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                            #38

                            Huh? I thought it was ForTran. :confused:

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                              why_the_hell_is_XML_always_capitalized?

                              Best wishes, Hans


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                              PIEBALDconsult
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                              Capitalized? No. Leveraged? Yes. :-D

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                              • D Douglas Troy

                                I can almost see you sitting in front of your computer, Rama, hunched over ... coveting your code ... whispering ... It is ... My Precious ... :rolleyes:

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                                Rama Krishna Vavilala
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                                That was a typo. here is the actual code.

                                [myPrecious loadDataFromXML];

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                                • J Jim SS

                                  Gary Wheeler wrote:

                                  spell it FORTRAN

                                  I was wondering how many other people even knew that. Even C# and Java still allow GOTOs, so the statement is still true.:cool:

                                  SS => Qualified in Submarines "We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm". Winston Churchill "Real programmers can write FORTRAN in any language". Unknown

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                                  Gary Wheeler
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                                  Much better.

                                  Software Zen: delete this;

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                                  • P PIEBALDconsult

                                    Huh? I thought it was ForTran. :confused:

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                                    Gary Wheeler
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                                    FORmula TRANslation[^]

                                    Software Zen: delete this;

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                                    • N Nemanja Trifunovic

                                      Why most programmers (at least Windows and Java programmers) use this horrible notation? It is both hard to write and hard to read:

                                      GetMyPreciousDataFromAnXMLFile()

                                      With undrescores it is at least easy to read if not to write:

                                      get_my_precious_data_from_an_XML_file()

                                      And of course, there is always a way to make it easy to write but hard to read:

                                      getmypreciousdatafromanXMLfile()

                                      Lispers have the best of both worlds (well, except for the parentheses):

                                      (get-my-precious-data-from-an-XML-file)

                                      I feel better now - feel free to vote me down :)

                                      Programming Blog utf8-cpp

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                                      Le centriste
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                                      Put on smart-ass hat

                                      Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:

                                      GetMyPreciousDataFromAnXMLFile()

                                      This is known as Pascal-case. Camel case version would have a small "g" at the beginning. Take off smart-ass hat

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                                      • R Rajesh R Subramanian

                                        Things like these are a matter of personal preference. Talking about code formatting, I call people who do this a rogue:

                                        void MyMagicFunc(LPVOID pParams){

                                        if(!pParams){
                                        HandleError();
                                        }

                                        //stuff goes here
                                        }

                                        I much prefer this instead:

                                        void MyMagicFunc(LPVOID pParams)
                                        {
                                        if(!pParams)
                                        {
                                        HandleError();
                                        }

                                        //stuff goes here
                                        }

                                        But, I'm well prepared to be called a rogue by those who don't like my style, as everyone may not like the same way of doing things. :) [ADDED] Just noticed the camel casing in my post. [/ADDED]

                                        It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini

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                                        OriginalGriff
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                                        I agree, but prefer

                                        void MyMagicFunc(LPVOID pParams)
                                        {
                                        if(!pParams)
                                        {
                                        HandleError();
                                        }
                                        //stuff goes here
                                        }

                                        Dunno why, been using it since I started with C (so it was probably a company style thing at the time). Either way, it is a lot clearer how the brackets match up.

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                                        • N Nemanja Trifunovic

                                          Why most programmers (at least Windows and Java programmers) use this horrible notation? It is both hard to write and hard to read:

                                          GetMyPreciousDataFromAnXMLFile()

                                          With undrescores it is at least easy to read if not to write:

                                          get_my_precious_data_from_an_XML_file()

                                          And of course, there is always a way to make it easy to write but hard to read:

                                          getmypreciousdatafromanXMLfile()

                                          Lispers have the best of both worlds (well, except for the parentheses):

                                          (get-my-precious-data-from-an-XML-file)

                                          I feel better now - feel free to vote me down :)

                                          Programming Blog utf8-cpp

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                                          CPallini
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                                          No Camelcase, no Pascal, no undescores, no hyphen. Method names should be like foo() or goo() (names like send() and recv(), deprecated, are allowed only if you're in a poetic mood). :)

                                          If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
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