From: feathers@gate.net (Michael Feathers)
Subject: Re: Hungarian notation
Date: 1996/01/08
Date: 1996-01-08T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4crm6i$24mi@navajo.gate.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4cpb00$nqk@news.xmission.com
Todd Knarr (tknarr@xmission.com) wrote:
: In <1996Jan7.045815.8676@ohstpy>, vancleef@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
:
: >How often do you use NON-ZERO terminated strings??? HN is
: >useless garbage in C++, or for ANSI C compilers.
Not so. I use HN in C++ all the time. It is excellent in the presence
of polymorphism.
: That's the big downside to HN: it simply cannot be sensibly extended to
: deal with an arbitrarily large number of types, and it goes completely
: insane dealing with polymorphism. I doubt anyone could come up with a
: reasonable HN prefix to accomodate a variable that can be one of 9
: different types at any given time.
I've never seen a variable that can be any of 9 different types in C++.
All variables have a type. Period. A type can be a union or a base
class, but all variables have one and only one type in C++. If you don't
believe me, check the ARM.
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1996-01-08 0:00 ` Michael Feathers [this message]
1996-01-08 0:00 ` Hungarian notation vancleef
1996-01-09 0:00 ` Todd Knarr
1996-01-09 0:00 ` Michael Feathers
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1996-01-09 0:00 ` Todd Knarr
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1996-01-08 0:00 ` Bob Kitzberger
1996-01-08 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-01-08 0:00 ` Michael Feathers
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1996-01-08 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
1996-02-19 0:00 ` Number representation (was: Hungarian notation - whoops!) Richard A. O'Keefe
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1996-02-19 0:00 ` Hungarian notation - whoops! Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-02-21 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
1996-02-22 0:00 ` Kazimir Kylheku
1996-05-15 0:00 Hungarian notation Bob Crispen
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