Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 03:33:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org (j mckitrick) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hungarian notation Message-ID: <200101190333.UAA27007@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <20010118161259.A69693@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> from "j mckitrick" at Jan 18, 2001 04:12:59 PM
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> What are everyone's thoughts on Hungarian notation? Does it have a place in > unix programming? > > Just in case anyone hasn't heard of the term, it's used to make variable > names descriptive of their type, e.g. > > int iCounter; > double dValue > char szString; > int* piPointer; It makes it harder than hell to call "decorated" library functions from monocase languages, like FORTRAN, COBOL, etc.. I think the _ONE_ valid thing to come out of ANSI prototypes (other than making it the programmers job to do the work that belongs in the linker; linker writers are lazy... but I digress) is that you don't need this BS, since the compiler will whine at you when you have type clashes anyway. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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