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- From: vancleef@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.edu,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.modula3
- Subject: Re: Hungarian notation
- Message-ID: <1996Jan8.235128.8688@ohstpy>
- Date: 8 Jan 96 23:51:28 -0500
- References: <30C40F77.53B5@swsbbs.com> <30EF0415.6FE1@tus.ssi1.com> <4crm6i$24mi@navajo.gate.net>
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- Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Physics
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- In article <4crm6i$24mi@navajo.gate.net>, feathers@gate.net (Michael Feathers) writes:
- > Todd Knarr (tknarr@xmission.com) wrote:
- > : In <1996Jan7.045815.8676@ohstpy>, vancleef@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
- > :
- > : >How often do you use NON-ZERO terminated strings??? HN is
- > : >useless garbage in C++, or for ANSI C compilers.
- >
- > Not so. I use HN in C++ all the time. It is excellent in the presence
- > of polymorphism.
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- Huh? How?
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- >
- > : That's the big downside to HN: it simply cannot be sensibly extended to
- > : deal with an arbitrarily large number of types, and it goes completely
- > : insane dealing with polymorphism. I doubt anyone could come up with a
- > : reasonable HN prefix to accomodate a variable that can be one of 9
- > : different types at any given time.
- >
- > I've never seen a variable that can be any of 9 different types in C++.
- > All variables have a type. Period. A type can be a union or a base
- > class, but all variables have one and only one type in C++. If you don't
- > believe me, check the ARM.
- >
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