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From: adam@irvine.com (Adam Beneschan)
Subject: Re: Hungarian notation
Date: 1996/01/08
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feathers@gate.net (Michael Feathers) writes:
>
>   If anyone does not think that type is important information that ought
>   to kept in mind for semantic purposes, just consider this: someone
>   anonymously offers you sex.  The type of person offering it should
>   be important to you, unless you are bisexual, and even then you
>   might like to know as some casting may be required.  :-)
>
>
>   -Mike (master of silly analogies)

I agree with your last point--i.e. that this is a silly analogy.  To
carry the silliness even further: you probably care what gender a
person is before you have sex with them, but if you're an employer
looking for someone to fill a position, you probably don't, or
shouldn't, care; all you're concerned with is what purpose you're
going to be using the person for.

Now, which of these analogies corresponds more closely to how
variables in a program are used?

(1) Using the variables for a purpose
(2) Having sex with the variables

:-)
                                -- Adam