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From: feathers@gate.net (Michael Feathers)
Subject: Re: Hungarian notation
Date: 1996/01/08
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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.