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From: mcrogerm@stjohn.sju.ac.th (Roger Merritt)
Subject: Re: Hungarian notation
Date: 1996/05/13
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Date: 1996-05-13T00:00:00+00:00
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Franz.Kruse@erno.de (Franz Kruse) wrote:


>Could someone please post an article describing Hungarian Notation in some detail
>and giving examples?

>Thanks,

>Franz

If you can get the book Code Complete from Microsoft Press (can't
remember the author) he describes the coding method in detail. It was
devised by a super-programmer at Microsoft (originally at PARC) named
Semonyi (if my memory is correct) who was Hungarian.

The idea is that you include information in the name of the variable
to help you remember the type. So a pointer to a char might be named
cpCurrent.

Same thing applies to function names to help you remember the type
returned.

The book I mentioned is a fairly good one on the methodology of
designing software, but I thought it was far too long and contained
far too few code examples.