From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ad19,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ad19,public X-Google-Thread: 107a89,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid107a89,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public X-Google-Thread: 1073c2,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid1073c2,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-01 06:18:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed.cwix.com!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.clarion,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.vrml Subject: Re: Long names are doom ? Message-ID: References: <3B0DBD4A.82943473@my-deja.net> <3B0DD011.88FCD00E@acm.org> <83WP6.3874$yc6.728572@news.xtra.co.nz> <3B1411D0.3AAF42E7@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <9f2nks$ibd$0@dosa.alt.net> <3B177EF7.2A2470F4@facilnet.es> Organization: LJK Software Date: 1 Jun 2001 09:18:45 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 991401527 216.44.122.34 (Fri, 01 Jun 2001 13:18:47 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 13:18:47 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7966 comp.lang.awk:2672 comp.lang.clarion:20781 comp.lang.java.programmer:72659 comp.lang.pl1:691 comp.lang.vrml:3410 Date: 2001-06-01T09:18:45-05:00 List-Id: In article <3B177EF7.2A2470F4@facilnet.es>, Alvaro Segura writes: > Anyone likes the MS convention of using "lpstrzLastName" instead of just > "LastName"? > They say it helps you see the type of the variable. But what is a last > name going to be? A floating-point number maybe? :-) I believe they felt they could only go so far in copying VMS and did not want to include the dollar signs. On VMS QRT$GL_WHATEVER is a globally accessible longword from the QRT facility. That convention is quite helpful in Bliss or Macro, but even C has enough type checking to make the GL_ part unnecessary. Of course the QRT$ tells the facility (and hence the vendor) to whose namespace it belongs.