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From: "Hyman Rosen" <hyman.rosen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Ada Quality and Style book discussion ("_Type" suffix)
Date: 17 Nov 2005 06:03:15 -0800
Date: 2005-11-17T06:03:15-08:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1132236195.224877.170890@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: sa48xvnzcio.fsf@snoopy.microcomaustralia.com.au

Brian May wrote:
> It was decided that it helped if you were reminded what type the
> variable is whenever you go to use it.
...
> However, sometimes it still helps to add a type prefix/postfix to a variable

Actually, this second use is what Hungarian notation was
intended to be. It was bastardized into the useless first form
by people who didn't understand what they were doing.

See <http://www.joelonsoftware.com/printerFriendly/articles/Wrong.html>.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-17 14:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 112+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-15 16:03 Request for comments on simple Ada program Maciej Sobczak
2005-11-15 17:43 ` Samuel Tardieu
2005-11-15 17:47   ` Samuel Tardieu
2005-11-15 21:28   ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2005-11-15 21:53     ` Samuel Tardieu
2005-11-16  9:10       ` Anders Wirzenius
2005-11-15 21:55     ` Samuel Tardieu
2005-11-16  9:03     ` Niklas Holsti
2005-11-16 14:21       ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2005-11-16 17:08         ` Niklas Holsti
2005-11-16  7:11   ` Brian May
2005-11-15 18:29 ` jimmaureenrogers
2005-11-15 19:33   ` tmoran
2005-11-16 14:46     ` jimmaureenrogers
2005-11-16 18:05       ` Martin Dowie
2005-11-16 19:54       ` tmoran
2005-11-15 18:52 ` Martin Krischik
2005-11-15 19:33 ` tmoran
2005-11-16  3:10   ` Ada Quality and Style book discussion Anonymous Coward
2005-11-16  4:09     ` tmoran
2005-11-16  5:49     ` Simon Wright
2005-11-16  7:03       ` Martin Dowie
2005-11-17  4:49         ` Anonymous Coward
2005-11-17  6:48           ` Martin Dowie
2005-11-17 11:45           ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-11-17 12:37             ` Stephen Leake
2005-11-17 13:24               ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-11-17 23:15                 ` Stephen Leake
2005-11-19 20:28                   ` Don't use the "use" clause Anonymous Coward
2005-11-19 20:35                     ` Ed Falis
2005-11-21 17:36                       ` David Emery
2005-11-21 19:20                         ` Ed Falis
2005-11-21 22:21                           ` David Trudgett
2005-11-21 22:51                             ` Ed Falis
2005-11-22  0:15                           ` Anonymous Coward
2005-11-23  4:09                             ` Ed Falis
2005-11-23 19:26                               ` tmoran
2005-11-19 21:48                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-11-19 22:33                       ` Simon Wright
2005-11-19 23:40                       ` Anonymous Coward
2005-11-20 11:07                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-11-20 19:50                       ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-11-20  2:53                     ` Stephen Leake
2005-11-20  3:57                       ` Anonymous Coward
2005-11-20 10:44                     ` Pascal Obry
2005-11-20 19:48                     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-11-22  5:11                     ` greptree lou
2005-11-22  6:08                       ` greptree Simon Wright
2005-11-25  1:00                       ` greptree Björn Persson
2006-01-23 12:51                     ` Don't use the "use" clause adaworks
2006-01-23 20:21                       ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-01-24  2:27                         ` Stephen Leake
2006-01-24  3:32                           ` Ed Falis
2006-01-24  4:44                           ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-01-24 22:53                             ` Stephen Leake
2006-01-24  8:54                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-01-24  9:48                             ` Martin Dowie
2006-01-24 10:28                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-01-24 13:30                                 ` brian.b.mcguinness
2006-01-24 20:03                                   ` Simon Wright
2006-01-24 23:00                                   ` Stephen Leake
2006-01-25  4:58                                     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-01-24 23:38                                 ` Randy Brukardt
2006-01-25 14:49                                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-01-25 21:46                                     ` Randy Brukardt
2006-01-26  9:14                                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-01-27  1:04                                         ` Randy Brukardt
2006-01-27 15:23                                           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-01-27 16:35                                             ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-01-27 23:09                                               ` Randy Brukardt
2006-01-27 23:18                                             ` Randy Brukardt
2006-01-28 10:41                                               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-01-24 22:55                             ` Stephen Leake
2006-01-24  9:42                           ` Martin Dowie
2006-01-24 23:02                             ` Stephen Leake
2006-01-25  9:14                               ` Martin Dowie
2006-01-25 11:01                             ` Peter Amey
2006-01-25 11:06                               ` Martin Dowie
2006-01-25 20:07                               ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-01-31  2:24                               ` Stephen Leake
2006-02-09  5:13                       ` Anonymous Coward
2005-11-17 20:55           ` Ada Quality and Style book discussion Simon Wright
2005-11-18  0:44             ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-11-19 20:56             ` Anonymous Coward
2005-11-19 22:41               ` Simon Wright
2005-11-20  0:03                 ` Anonymous Coward
2005-11-17  4:23       ` Ada Quality and Style book discussion ("_Type" suffix) Anonymous Coward
2005-11-17 10:51         ` Martin Dowie
2005-11-19 21:52           ` Anonymous Coward
2005-11-20 15:50             ` Martin Dowie
2005-11-17 11:34         ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-11-17 11:53           ` Martin Dowie
2005-11-17 13:26             ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-11-17 12:26           ` Brian May
2005-11-17 13:45             ` Martin Dowie
2005-11-17 14:22               ` Marc A. Criley
2005-11-17 14:50                 ` Martin Dowie
2005-11-18  3:04                 ` Brian May
2005-11-18  9:23                   ` Maciej Sobczak
2005-11-18 14:00                     ` Marc A. Criley
2005-11-18 11:48                   ` Java exception model. Was: " Peter C. Chapin
2005-11-18 13:18                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-11-19 18:06                       ` Peter C. Chapin
2005-11-19 18:58                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-11-21 22:38                           ` Brian May
2005-11-21 23:27                           ` Brian May
2005-11-18 22:33                   ` Simon Wright
2005-11-17 14:03             ` Hyman Rosen [this message]
2005-11-20 19:41         ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-11-20 20:43           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-11-21  0:00             ` Simon Wright
2005-11-16 13:51     ` Ada Quality and Style book discussion Marc A. Criley
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