From: Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Sucking (was Re: How can I avoid Using a Semaphore? (long))
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 01:44:09 GMT
Date: 2001-02-03T01:44:09+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A7B6261.9615905@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 95fbj0$nen$6@usenet.rational.com
Mark Lundquist wrote:
> The style of "aFoobar" and "anApteryx" for type names seems like a different
> form of the "The_Foobar" cop-out for parameter names
The first few letters of an identifier are the most important for
recognition. If all your identifiers start with some kind of noise, be
it "a", "The_", or the Hungarian notation crap, it makes your code
harder to read. As we all know, that is A Bad Thing.
Writing "aFoobar" and "anApteryx" in a language that allows underlines
in identifiers is unwise. An underline between words makes them easier
to read than just a case difference. Such a style in a case-insensitive
language is even less wise.
--
Jeff Carter
"You tiny-brained wipers of other people's bottoms!"
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-13 16:18 How can I avoid Using a Semaphore? (long) DuckE
2001-01-15 1:06 ` How can I avoid Using a Semaphore? Nick Roberts
2001-01-15 3:17 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-16 3:53 ` DuckE
2001-01-17 15:42 ` Nick Roberts
2001-01-20 18:16 ` DuckE
2001-01-20 19:16 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-21 1:28 ` DuckE
2001-01-21 16:04 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-21 23:23 ` DuckE
2001-01-22 0:28 ` mark_lundquist
2001-01-22 1:51 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-23 2:36 ` DuckE
2001-01-22 0:35 ` Built-in types (was " mark_lundquist
2001-01-22 1:54 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-22 16:18 ` mark_lundquist
2001-01-22 17:20 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-22 23:17 ` Mark Lundquist
[not found] ` <m33deaaeks.fsf@ns40.infomatch.bc.ca>
2001-02-02 22:01 ` Mark Lundquist
[not found] ` <94km00$bv8$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
2001-02-02 22:03 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-01-21 16:53 ` Nick Roberts
2001-01-21 18:24 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-23 0:21 ` Nick Roberts
2001-01-22 0:16 ` mark_lundquist
2001-01-22 16:51 ` How can I avoid Using a Semaphore? (long) mark_lundquist
2001-01-23 6:02 ` DuckE
2001-02-02 22:00 ` Sucking (was Re: How can I avoid Using a Semaphore? (long)) Mark Lundquist
2001-02-03 1:44 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2001-02-03 3:21 ` DuckE
2001-02-05 20:07 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-02-06 7:16 ` Sven Nilsson
2001-02-02 22:18 ` How can I avoid Using a Semaphore? (long) Mark Lundquist
2001-02-03 3:01 ` DuckE
2001-02-02 21:38 ` Niklas Holsti
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