Re: what I meant about hungarian notation

[Bryan C . Warnock]

On Wednesday 09 May 2001 10:44, David Grove wrote:
> I used to request hungarian notation from programmers who worked for me,
> until I saw the actual compliance with that request culminate in a local
> variable named l_st_uliI. Of course, that's an "static unsigned int i"
> used as a simple iterator in local scope. Of course, written more
> appropriately, this would have just been "static unsigned int i". At that
> point, Hungarian notation fell apart for me. Its strict use adds (IMO) as
> much confusion as MicroSoft's redefinition of C, with thousands of
> typedefs representing basic types ("LPSTR" and "HWND" come to mind as the
> most common).

Not mention the hoop-jumping required to keep variable names in sync with 
code changes.  (signed-ness, short->int->long, etc)


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Bryan C. Warnock
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