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  • J jpg 0

    Before I step into the world of linux, I always use camel case, but in the linux world, almost everything are separated by a dash Now I have to manage a cross platform project and is thinking about which naming convention to adopt

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    Chris C B
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    So there! :)

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      So there! :)

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      OriginalGriff
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      (so do I, but I'm trying not to use Hungarian notation, and have been trying for years...Don't tell anybody!)

      Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

      "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
      "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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        For best results, I would recommend a Fortran naming convention: 6 characters only, starts with a letter. No lower case. :-D

        Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

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        Vivi Chellappa
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        No. COBOL is better. Names as long as thirty characters are allowed.

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        • V Vivi Chellappa

          No. COBOL is better. Names as long as thirty characters are allowed.

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          OriginalGriff
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          Vivic wrote:

          COBOL is better.

          That is the first time I have ever seen those three words together, in that order, without them having the suffix "than being nailed to a wall by your eyes and having your genitals stapled together." And hopefully the last! :laugh:

          Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

          "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
          "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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          • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

            Nah - compilers are used to developers screaming at them. Abuse normally.

            Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

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            Gary R Wheeler
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            I refer to all of my IDE's using the same monicker: "You stupid sonnuvabitch."

            Software Zen: delete this;

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            • J jpg 0

              Before I step into the world of linux, I always use camel case, but in the linux world, almost everything are separated by a dash Now I have to manage a cross platform project and is thinking about which naming convention to adopt

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              Brady Kelly
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              I give myself a nice mix by using the dash for all things css because I can, and camelCase elsewhere. You can't use dashes everywhere, e.g. variable names in most languages.

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              • C Chris C B

                So there! :)

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                Gary R Wheeler
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                Pascal case is okay, and underscores are groovy. Camel case, on the other hand, is an abomination before God. (so says the olde git)

                Software Zen: delete this;

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                • J jpg 0

                  Before I step into the world of linux, I always use camel case, but in the linux world, almost everything are separated by a dash Now I have to manage a cross platform project and is thinking about which naming convention to adopt

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                  Maximilien
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                  If this is you own product, use the same coding convention that you are used to. If you are working on an existing Open Source software, use the coding conventions already in place for that project.

                  Watched code never compiles.

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                  • J jpg 0

                    Before I step into the world of linux, I always use camel case, but in the linux world, almost everything are separated by a dash Now I have to manage a cross platform project and is thinking about which naming convention to adopt

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                    Joan M
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                    Depending the language you are using - can give you problems in variable names. Therefore I would go with an uppercase letter in each word start.

                    [www.tamautomation.com] Robots, CNC and PLC machines for grinding and polishing.

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                      Pascal case is okay, and underscores are groovy. Camel case, on the other hand, is an abomination before God. (so says the olde git)

                      Software Zen: delete this;

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                      Chris C B
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                      Gary R. Wheeler wrote:

                      underscores are groovy

                      _I_hate_underscores_-_all_those_extra_key_strokes_._:mad:_

                      Gary R. Wheeler wrote:

                      Camel case, on the other hand, is an abomination before God.

                      I'm a devil worshipper, so that's alright then. ;) Anyway, after 20 years in the Middle East, camel case just comes naturally. :laugh:

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                      • C Chris C B

                        So there! :)

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                        Espen Harlinn
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                        iPreferSomethingLikeThis

                        Is that the Apple style? ;)

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                        • C Chris C B

                          Gary R. Wheeler wrote:

                          underscores are groovy

                          _I_hate_underscores_-_all_those_extra_key_strokes_._:mad:_

                          Gary R. Wheeler wrote:

                          Camel case, on the other hand, is an abomination before God.

                          I'm a devil worshipper, so that's alright then. ;) Anyway, after 20 years in the Middle East, camel case just comes naturally. :laugh:

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                          Gary R Wheeler
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                          Chris C-B wrote:

                          after 20 years in the Middle East, camel case just comes naturally

                          At my company, that statement would be an "EOE violation". EOE == the corporate policy that ensures that all employees are interchangable, gender and ethnic-neutral drones.

                          Software Zen: delete this;

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                          • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                            Vivic wrote:

                            COBOL is better.

                            That is the first time I have ever seen those three words together, in that order, without them having the suffix "than being nailed to a wall by your eyes and having your genitals stapled together." And hopefully the last! :laugh:

                            Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

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                            Vivi Chellappa
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                            Come on. Do you have anything like the "Alter" statement which will change the address (statement label) you jump to while executing a program? Makes for a hairy debugging experience! :laugh:

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                              Come on. Do you have anything like the "Alter" statement which will change the address (statement label) you jump to while executing a program? Makes for a hairy debugging experience! :laugh:

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                              FORTRAN: Not only can you declare a single integer and use it as a four dimensional array of reals, but you can change the value of physical constants! You haven't met hairy debugging until a loop that is fixed to do 3 iterations is doing 14 because the constant 3 has been changed. Or working out why your circles aren't because someone accidentally changed 3.1415927 to 8.6 Or assembler. Self modifying code! Fun, fun fun, 'til someone loses an eye... :laugh:

                              Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

                              "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                              "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                              • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                Nah - compilers are used to developers screaming at them. Abuse normally.

                                Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

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                                BillWoodruff
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                                Hiren spake thus: "Compiler will complain to code on shouting." Whence OriginalGriff spake thus: "Nah - compilers are used to developers screaming at them. Abuse normally." But, OG, how do you think the code feels having to bear the constant burden of being the one and only entity to which the compiler can ventilate their continual frustrations with the mis-use developers are subjecting them to ? I think a viable product would be a device that attaches to the side of the computer with an electro-mechnical arm, with a padded fist attached to it, that can be adjusted to slap the programmer up the side of the head based on commands sent to it by its integration into Visual Studio, possibly an add-on for ReSharper, or JustCode, etc. Too many static variables scattered across classes, and used willy-nilly: bitch-slap. Anonymous functions within recursive anonymous functions: TKO. Writing an extension that extends 'Object:' permanent coma. best, Bill

                                "The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness." Andre Malraux

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                                • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                  For best results, I would recommend a Fortran naming convention: 6 characters only, starts with a letter. No lower case. :-D

                                  Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

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                                  Mycroft Holmes
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                                  OriginalGriff wrote:

                                  I would recommend a Fortran naming convention

                                  So that is where that convention came from (never having been inflicted with any of the seed languages), I ran across it in the late 80s and wanted to know who in their right mind would inflict such a horrible format on someone. The other one was the datamap, PRGX12 = Customer link file to phone numbers!

                                  Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                                    Hiren spake thus: "Compiler will complain to code on shouting." Whence OriginalGriff spake thus: "Nah - compilers are used to developers screaming at them. Abuse normally." But, OG, how do you think the code feels having to bear the constant burden of being the one and only entity to which the compiler can ventilate their continual frustrations with the mis-use developers are subjecting them to ? I think a viable product would be a device that attaches to the side of the computer with an electro-mechnical arm, with a padded fist attached to it, that can be adjusted to slap the programmer up the side of the head based on commands sent to it by its integration into Visual Studio, possibly an add-on for ReSharper, or JustCode, etc. Too many static variables scattered across classes, and used willy-nilly: bitch-slap. Anonymous functions within recursive anonymous functions: TKO. Writing an extension that extends 'Object:' permanent coma. best, Bill

                                    "The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness." Andre Malraux

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                                    OriginalGriff
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                                    Can we add a pistol-whipping for unnecessary use of GOTO?

                                    Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

                                    "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                                    "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                                      OriginalGriff wrote:

                                      I would recommend a Fortran naming convention

                                      So that is where that convention came from (never having been inflicted with any of the seed languages), I ran across it in the late 80s and wanted to know who in their right mind would inflict such a horrible format on someone. The other one was the datamap, PRGX12 = Customer link file to phone numbers!

                                      Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                                      OriginalGriff
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                                      :-D FORTRAN had a line length limit of 80 characters (after that you needed to put a Continuation character in column 7 of the next line), so lots of things got shortened as much as possible. Produced some gawd-awful code by modern standards, but good enough to get men onto the moon! And a heck of a lot better than COBOL, which had no such variable name limit.

                                      Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

                                      "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                                      "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                                      • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                        Can we add a pistol-whipping for unnecessary use of GOTO?

                                        Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

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                                        Nagy Vilmos
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                                        OriginalGriff wrote:

                                        Can we add a pistol-whipping for unnecessary use of GOTO?

                                        ftfy


                                        Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

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                                        • N Nagy Vilmos

                                          OriginalGriff wrote:

                                          Can we add a pistol-whipping for unnecessary use of GOTO?

                                          ftfy


                                          Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

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                                          OriginalGriff
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                                          :-D Sometimes a GOTO is the best way out - it can be a cleaner solution than a bool and test, test, test, test to get out of multiple loops. I haven't used one since I started with C#, and probably haven't used one (outside assembler code where you don't get a choice) for twenty years though.

                                          Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

                                          "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                                          "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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