I don't care about your naming convention, just be consistent [modified]
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By Hungarian I mean the type is prefixed onto the variable name as in iCount, lpszName etc. The "m_", "p_", g_" etc. metaprefix indates the scope: Member of class, function parameter, global and so on. Once upon a time we thought this was a good idea! But then incremental compilation meant we could go back to readable, pronounceable variable names. (I'm waiting for the next generation retrospective on naming, when we go back to a maximum of six characters, and the first character defines it as a integer if it is 'i' to 'n' so you don't even have to declare them...)
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
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Don't remind me. I was downgraded by a professor for defining variables that just happened to start with i and j. Apparently, Pascal teaches you bad habits :~
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rentzk wrote:
Apparently, Pascal teaches you bad habits
What do variable names like
i
andj
have to with Pascal? :confused: /raviMy new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
Nothing that I remember: 'i' through 'n' inclusive being default declaration for integer, and the six character limit were FORTRAN.
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
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rentzk wrote:
Apparently, Pascal teaches you bad habits
What do variable names like
i
andj
have to with Pascal? :confused: /raviMy new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
Sorry, I was in a bit of a hurry. Pascal was where I was taught to always define my variables. This was not appreciated by a very old school instructor who taught the FORTRAN class. Fortunately, the Pascal lessons stuck with me a lot better than the FORTRAN ones.
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Where's Hungarian?
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
You called?
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
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You called?
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
No, not you - your name doesn't start with a lower case letter, and is quite pronounceable. :laugh:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
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By Hungarian I mean the type is prefixed onto the variable name as in iCount, lpszName etc. The "m_", "p_", g_" etc. metaprefix indates the scope: Member of class, function parameter, global and so on. Once upon a time we thought this was a good idea! But then incremental compilation meant we could go back to readable, pronounceable variable names. (I'm waiting for the next generation retrospective on naming, when we go back to a maximum of six characters, and the first character defines it as a integer if it is 'i' to 'n' so you don't even have to declare them...)
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
The m_, g_ etc. prefixes are all later inventions MS added when they started writing MFC (I guess, that's the first usage I ever came across). You don't really need them in C as the only scopes are global, file and local.
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The m_, g_ etc. prefixes are all later inventions MS added when they started writing MFC (I guess, that's the first usage I ever came across). You don't really need them in C as the only scopes are global, file and local.
That's where I first met Hungarian notation. The only problem is I still use a bastardized version of it: tb for TextBox, but for Button, dgv for DateGridView... One day, I must try to make a clean break! :laugh:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
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I was just given a project to rewrite, cleanup, and add features to. The first class I look at has these variables. It appears the original author liked to use almost every convention for naming variables, arbitrarily changing it up.
private string ip_addr = "xx.xx.xx.xx";
private int _port = 2000;
public int countQuotesReceived = 0, countQuotesCreated = 0;
public bool _connected = false;
public bool _initialized = false;
public bool BroadCast = false, ResetHighsLows = false;
public bool reconnecting = false;modified on Monday, January 17, 2011 4:35 PM
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Maybe every piece of code comes from another on-line tutorial where various naming conventions were used. Better not to change anything if it works you know.
Greetings - Jacek
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No, not you - your name doesn't start with a lower case letter, and is quite pronounceable. :laugh:
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
His name is probably the only Hungarian name that CAN be pronounced. Man, do they know how to mess up names, or what? :~
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