From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,f292779560fb8442 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,af40e09e753872c X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f8c65,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8c65,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 1008e3,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1008e3,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,30e368bdb3310fe5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public From: Arne W Flones Subject: Re: Hungarian notation Date: 1996/05/17 Message-ID: <319D2278.3F9A@netonecom.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 155506041 references: <4ahka7$o9m@inrou.erno.de> <4n6off$6e2@mikasa.iol.it> <3198F30F.2A2@zurich.ibm.com> <4na2ur$gbl@oban.cc.ic.ac.uk> <31999F43.41C67EA6@scn.de> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: NetOne Communications Inc. mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.modula2,comp.edu,comp.lang.eiffel x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (WinNT; I) Date: 1996-05-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: mAg wrote: > > Hungarian Notation is an excellent concept, but I am sure that it will be > appreciated only by the programmers who have to work with serious code and > maintain it for years. [snip] B.S!! It is a b-a-a-a-a-a-d idea. It is an idiotic coding standard. In "Programming Pearls," Jon Bentley tells us to debug the code, not the comments. With Microsoft's idea, we now must remember to debug the code, not the Hungarian Notation. Hungarian notation is a horrible idea. These kinds of standards are an attempt to make code readable when there are multiple programmers. Unfortunately, they never work. Case in point: The first time somebody wants to change the type of an identifier and doesn't want to grep through all the source code to find all uses of the variable, Hungarian Notation stops working. As is ALWAYS the case, this will happen, especially in a large project. Variable naming conventions always break down. I don't use them. Regards, Arne flonesaw@netonecom.net