Re: Hungarian notation

["Paul D. DeRocco" <pderocco@ix.netcom.com>]

Jos A. Horsmeier wrote:
> IMHO Hungarian notation is just a bunch of hulla baloo; it doesn't add
> anything to the textual representation of the semantics of a piece of
> code, i.e. it doesn't make things more readable.

Hear, hear!

I don't want to contribute to restarting World War I, but Hungarian 
notation makes things less readable, in my view, because the names are 
so damn long that what ought to fit onto a single line ends up taking 
many lines.

Besides, I like to reserve long descriptive names for functions and 
other things of global scope, and use little one- or two-letter names 
for all formal parameters and locals. That way, if you see something 
like:

    for (i = 0; i < number_of_widgets; i++) ...

you automatically know that i is just a temporary concept that has 
meaning during this particular algorithm, while number_of_widgets is a 
real THING that always exists. And as long as all functions fit on a 
page, and all locals are declared at the top of the function, it's 
pretty easy to glance up to see exactly what i is, if it isn't obvious 
from the context.

I guess I'll never work for Bill Gates.

Besides, I'll bet even Hungarians don't like Hungarian notation!

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Ciao,
Paul D. DeRocco