On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 05:21, Jay Blanchard wrote: > I think that part of the problem is that many PHP developers come to > programming from the largely self-taught web community (not that there > is anything wrong with that). They have never programmed before (doing > HTML and CSS is NOT programming) and probably have scant little > experience with using databases. Therefore these folks have missed a lot > of what experienced and learned programmers know and do. (See my > previous rants on planning, documentation, modeling, flowcharting, etc.) > > These things all become especially important when you have multiple > code-jockeys working the same project. You have to have checks and > balances. Stating the notation style is one check, confirming at the end > of the day that the variables contain what you expect them to at every > step is another. It takes us a couple of extra steps to generate > accountability for these things in PHP because variables are not > strongly typed, but we have come up with methods to handle this. > > I think that it is incumbent upon those of us who have these "best > practices" in place to encourage and educate those who do not. > > Jay
I'm not going to get into this argument on the list, but feel free to email me off-list. At any rate, I'm not sure what your point is except to attempt to educate me that coding standards are a Good Thing, which is rather obvious. My point is that there has been no conclusive argument made that Hungarian notation is a quantitatively better method than any other. Torben -- Torben Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +1.604.709.0506 http://www.thebuttlesschaps.com http://www.inflatableeye.com http://www.hybrid17.com http://www.themainonmain.com -----==== Boycott Starbucks! http://www.haidabuckscafe.com ====----- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
