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From: mbk@caffeine.engr.utk.edu (Matt Kennel)
Subject: Re: Hungarian notation
Date: 1996/05/16
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Peter Seebach (seebs@solutions.solon.com) wrote:

: Only when done by the terminally naive.  If you use prefixes relating to
: abstract types, it can be a helpful notational cue, without the @#*@#
: idiocies of...

This is better than the dumb interpretation, but I don't feel it's
that important. 

The names of variables should not really be a major issue, however
the names in the interface of a *CLASS* are!  

Any 'major' piece of data will be in some interface anyway. 

This is where strict style conventions which relate concepts not
directly expressible in the language technology may be valuable.

: Peter Seebach - seebs@solon.com - Copyright 1996 Peter Seebach.