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- From: adam@irvine.com (Adam Beneschan)
- Subject: Re: Hungarian notation
- In-Reply-To: feathers@gate.net's message of 6 Jan 1996 22:17:34 -0500
- Followup-To: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.eiffel
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- Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 21:05:08 GMT
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-
- feathers@gate.net (Michael Feathers) writes:
- >
- > If anyone does not think that type is important information that ought
- > to kept in mind for semantic purposes, just consider this: someone
- > anonymously offers you sex. The type of person offering it should
- > be important to you, unless you are bisexual, and even then you
- > might like to know as some casting may be required. :-)
- >
- >
- > -Mike (master of silly analogies)
-
- I agree with your last point--i.e. that this is a silly analogy. To
- carry the silliness even further: you probably care what gender a
- person is before you have sex with them, but if you're an employer
- looking for someone to fill a position, you probably don't, or
- shouldn't, care; all you're concerned with is what purpose you're
- going to be using the person for.
-
- Now, which of these analogies corresponds more closely to how
- variables in a program are used?
-
- (1) Using the variables for a purpose
- (2) Having sex with the variables
-
- :-)
- -- Adam
-
-