From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 18 8:13:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7121737B401 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 08:13:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 14JHgK-0004W8-00 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:13:00 +0000 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0IGCx769856 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:12:59 GMT (envelope-from jcm) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:12:59 +0000 From: j mckitrick To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: hungarian notation Message-ID: <20010118161259.A69693@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org What are everyone's thoughts on Hungarian notation? Does it have a place in unix programming? Just in case anyone hasn't heard of the term, it's used to make variable names descriptive of their type, e.g. int iCounter; double dValue char szString; int* piPointer; jcm -- o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o | ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jonathon McKitrick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | "I prefer the term 'Artificial Person' myself." | o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message