From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 19 4:14:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from apoq.skynet.be (apoq.skynet.be [195.238.2.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B9F037B401 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 04:14:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.17.1.121] (warp-core.skynet.be [195.238.2.25]) by apoq.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9325EA004; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 13:14:02 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200101190333.UAA27007@usr08.primenet.com> References: <200101190333.UAA27007@usr08.primenet.com> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:30:49 +0100 To: Terry Lambert , jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org (j mckitrick) From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: hungarian notation Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 3:33 AM +0000 2001/1/19, Terry Lambert wrote: > I think the _ONE_ valid thing to come out of ANSI prototypes > (other than making it the programmers job to do the work that > belongs in the linker; linker writers are lazy... but I digress) > is that you don't need this BS, since the compiler will whine at > you when you have type clashes anyway. I understand that the compiler should bitch at you if you get this wrong, but IMO it is better if the programmer gets it right to begin with. Hungarian notation is not a sufficient feature to guarantee that this will happen, but it is a stylistic aid that programers can use that may help them more often get it right the first time, and towards that end I believe that it is a good idea. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message