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- Date: 06 Jan 1996 10:39:00 +0100
- From: jhd@herold.franken.de (Joachim Durchholz)
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- Subject: Re: Hungarian notation
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- andy@wndrwrks.demon.co.uk wrote 05.01.96 on Re: Hungarian notation:
-
- > In article <4cd8fc$oud@news.manawatu.gen.nz>, Chris Tutty
- > <ctutty@manawatu.gen.nz> writes
- >
- > Consider also that variable names may be misleading anyway. In that
- > sense there's no great difference between
- >
- > someProc(MyString)
- >
- > and
- >
- > someProc(pszMyString)
- >
- > either could quite happily refer to any other data type.
- >
-
- This example does not occur in real life. Or rather, it better should not!
- Anybody using meaningless names like "MyString" should be thrown out of
- the programming business. Depending on the actual semantics of "someProc",
- the parameter should be called "Message" or "Options" or "ParserInput" or
- whatever.
-
- -Joachim
-
- --
- Im speaking for myself here.
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