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From: Keith Whittingham <wgk@zurich.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Hungarian notation
Date: 1996/05/14
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Roger Merritt wrote:
> 
> Franz.Kruse@erno.de (Franz Kruse) wrote:
> 
> >Could someone please post an article describing Hungarian Notation in some detail
> >and giving examples?
> 
> >Thanks,
> 
> >Franz
> 
> The idea is that you include information in the name of the variable
> to help you remember the type. So a pointer to a char might be named
> cpCurrent.
> 
> Same thing applies to function names to help you remember the type
> returned.
> 


And is absolutely horrible! It serves little purpose especially in the world of
C++ as we can invent our own data types and attempting to extend the convention
to include our newly defined types makes the code unreadable.

In addition it makes it difficult to change a int to an unsigned int or to 
a long without updating every occurence of the variable name in the code.


-- 
Keith Whittingham
wgk@zurich.ibm.com