nnxion

Haven't we all had that before, even with meaningful names?

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DaWei

Off-topic: Ruben, your PM box is full. Contact me by email.

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Cache

I usually start the variable names with the first letter(s) of it's type.

e.g:
char chLetter;
char szText[10];
char* pszText;
std::string strText;
int iMax;
bool bIsSomething;
... ect.

Booooze

Yeah, that's usually the way I do it too. It's a good habit because then you know what type the var is. I think that's the way professionals do it as well don't they? Simply because it's easier to understand the code when looking at soemone elses. Sometimes, mine are all over the place

Infinite Recursion

No, not always the case. Although, it is good practice, in my experience I have rarely come across naming conventions like those, outside of an education environment.

However, I have came across names like iv2, qrz, bobFox, fred, asdfw2etgha, a, aa, aaa, aaaa, aaaaa and so on. Obviously, these programmers didn't want anyone to maintain their code, giving them a false sense of job security (they were wrong, as the code was rewritten).

More often than not, the variables are named in such a way that you know their purpose, not necessarily their type. IE: thermalIndex, heatSignature, balance, firstName, zipCode, etc. The type would normally be derived from how the variable is utilized within its code block in relation to other lines.

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Polyphemus_

I remember calling my variables "John", "Thingy", "Thangy", "counter1", "counter2", "Jack", "Blah", "Blahdieblah", "Blahdieblah1", "YourMom", etcetera when I was young .

Yeah, the good old times...

DaWei

Listen to IR, forget Hungarian notation. countThangy is considerably more useful than intBlahBlah. By the time you stack enough of those to know that you have a long pointer to a zero-terminated string running on hemorrhoid juice, you have made me puke in my boots, fire you, and hire another. You are, of course, entitled to your own opinion. Let us hope you don't declaim it loudly while standing in the unemployment line.

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Polyphemus_

Nowadays I use really normal names for my variables, I was talking about the time when I was 8 / 9 years old...

DaWei

Wasn't directed at you, Poly, just a general observation exacerbated, no doubt, by writing Win16 code. You ever read all those types, and THEN move on to the macros?

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nnxion

Off-topic: I mailed you at Yahoo, need I mail the other?

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