From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 18 9:25:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.registeredsite.com (mail3.registeredsite.com [64.224.9.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9410737B401 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 09:25:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.threespace.com (mail.threespace.com [216.247.134.44]) by mail3.registeredsite.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0IHPHL31015 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 12:25:17 -0500 Received: from ATLANTA.threespace.com [24.21.224.204] by mail.threespace.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.05) id A6F828D1004C; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 12:25:12 -0500 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010118122154.0370e628@mail.threespace.com> X-Sender: tech_info@mail.threespace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 12:25:05 -0500 To: FreeBSD Chat From: Technical Information Subject: Re: hungarian notation In-Reply-To: <20010118161259.A69693@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I actually teach and emphasize Hungarian notation when I teach Visual Basic and C++ on Windows and UNIX. I think it's a good technique for moderately complex programs, almost a form of self-documentation. --Chip Morton At 11:12 AM 1/18/2001, you wrote: >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message