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- From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
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- Subject: Re: Hungarian notation
- Date: 23 Jan 1996 09:31:35 -0500
- Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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- Douglas said
-
- "The way I was taught, you use typedefs only for variables that are likely
- to change type (and you want to change all of the instances of that type
- at once) and for cross-platform portability (in a multi-language
- environment like Windows or when you are saving data to disk). Using it
- for most other things will, as you said, only hamper coding and debugging
- efforts. However, to use those examples to induce "typedefs are useless"
- is jumping to a bad conclusion. If you want to argue that the uses that
- I gave are bad, we can do that, but to generalize without looking at all
- potential uses isn't a good idea."
-
- It is really remarkable listening to this debate how little understanding
- of abstract types most people have. A lot of writers, like Douglas, seem
- to almost completely confuse the notions of type and representation.
-
- Indeed one could say that HN is all about enforcing this confusion!
- and making sure that type abstraction is not used as a tool in your
- program.
-
- Most amazing!
-
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