From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 22 4:19:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE5CC37B400 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 04:19:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 14KfwQ-0006EC-00; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 12:19:22 +0000 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0MCJK103097; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 12:19:20 GMT (envelope-from jcm) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 12:19:20 +0000 From: j mckitrick To: Brad Knowles Cc: Terry Lambert , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hungarian notation Message-ID: <20010122121920.A3056@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <200101190333.UAA27007@usr08.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 12:30:49PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org | Hungarian notation is not a sufficient feature to guarantee that | this will happen, but it is a stylistic aid that programers can use The way I understand it, the hungarian notation is most useful for the original writer who hasn't looked at his code for a while, or a maintenance programmer. When reading the code, rather than flipping back to the declaration block repeatedly, you know what each variable is by its name. jcm -- o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o | ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jonathon McKitrick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | "I prefer the term 'Artificial Person' myself." | o-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-o To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message