Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 13:48:10 -0500 From: Technical Information <tech_info@threespace.com> To: FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: hungarian notation Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010122134036.01790960@mail.threespace.com> In-Reply-To: <20010122121920.A3056@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <v04220802b68dd52c746d@[10.0.1.2]> <200101190333.UAA27007@usr08.primenet.com> <v04220802b68dd52c746d@[10.0.1.2]>
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At 07:19 AM 1/22/2001, j mckitrick wrote: >| Hungarian notation is not a sufficient feature to guarantee that >| this will happen, but it is a stylistic aid that programers can use > >The way I understand it, the hungarian notation is most useful for the >original writer who hasn't looked at his code for a while, or a maintenance >programmer. When reading the code, rather than flipping back to the >declaration block repeatedly, you know what each variable is by its name. This savings in time alone is enough to make me think it's worthwhile. But it also has the advantage that you get to reuse the same variable name on different types without confusion. For instance, intBuffer and charBuffer are two completely different (but perhaps related) variables. This sort of thing becomes very valuable in a language like Visual Basic where a group of different controls may have related function (e.g., lblZipCode, cmdZipCode, and txtZipCode). --Chip Morton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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