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- From: feathers@gate.net (Michael Feathers)
- 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
- Followup-To: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.edu,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.modula3
- Date: 8 Jan 1996 13:01:54 -0500
- Organization: CyberGate, Inc.
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- 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.
-
- : 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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