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0 pointsraverbashing13y ago0 comments

It is crazy if you misuse Hungarian Notation like 99% of the people out there

For the 1000th time

"there is no need to encode the type of a variable into the name"

It's not the data type (int, char, etc), it's the nature of the thing being counted!

Number of apples, height, distance, etc

But of course when saying "type" most people would think it's the data type when it's not

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wladimir13y ago

I'm not sure what you're referring to, but in all instances of Hungarian notation I've seen (especially in Windows programs) it was the data type (pointer to char, 8 bit int, 32 bit int etc) encoded and not "the nature of the thing".

I agree that adding the "nature of the thing being counted" makes sense, but then you don't have to call it Hungarian notation anymore, "number_of_apples" is just a sensible variable name...

djpowell13y ago

Joel Spolsky wrote a good summary about the Hungarian notation, and how it got corrupted within Microsoft:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html

wladimir13y ago

Thanks for the explanation. The original idea was pretty good. But I've only, ever, seen the corrupted variant in the wild. And coding standards that enforce it. Hence my annoyance.

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0 pointsraverbashing13y ago0 comments

It is crazy if you misuse Hungarian Notation like 99% of the people out there

For the 1000th time

"there is no need to encode the type of a variable into the name"

It's not the data type (int, char, etc), it's the nature of the thing being counted!

Number of apples, height, distance, etc

But of course when saying "type" most people would think it's the data type when it's not

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wladimir13y ago

I agree that adding the "nature of the thing being counted" makes sense, but then you don't have to call it Hungarian notation anymore, "number_of_apples" is just a sensible variable name...

djpowell13y ago

Joel Spolsky wrote a good summary about the Hungarian notation, and how it got corrupted within Microsoft:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html

wladimir13y ago

Thanks for the explanation. The original idea was pretty good. But I've only, ever, seen the corrupted variant in the wild. And coding standards that enforce it. Hence my annoyance.

1 more reply

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