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From: jhd@herold.franken.de (Joachim Durchholz)
Subject: Re: Hungarian notation
Date: 1996/01/08
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Date: 1996-01-08T00:00:00+00:00
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Mike.Palmer@tus.ssi1.com wrote 06.01.96 on Re: Hungarian notation:

> Joachim Durchholz wrote:
> >
> > > Consider also that variable names may be misleading anyway. In that
> > > sense there's no great difference between
> > >
> > >         someProc(MyString)
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > >         someProc(pszMyString)
> > >
> > > either could quite happily refer to any other data type.
> > >
> >
> > This example does not occur in real life. Or rather, it better should not!
> > Anybody using meaningless names like "MyString" should be thrown out of
> > the programming business. Depending on the actual semantics of "someProc",
> > the parameter should be called "Message" or "Options" or "ParserInput" or
> > whatever.
> >
> > -Joachim
>
> One hopes you just missed the point here. Hungarian notation does not
> attempt to help you keep track of _what_ your variable is, it gives you a
> framework to keep track of what _kind_ of variable it is. One would also
> note that someProc is not a very descriptive name, but so what? In the first
> example, I have _no_ clue what type of variable MyString is, although I
> could probably deduce that it is a string. In the second example, the  
prefix
That's exactly what I meant. Sorry that I didn't make my point clear.
> tells me that it is a Pointer to a Zero terminated String.


-Joachim

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