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- From: pauls@truevision.com
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Date: 18 Jul 92 16:54 MDT
- Subject: Re: Hungarian notation
- Sender: Notesfile to Usenet Gateway <notes@glas.apc.org>
- Message-ID: <1992Jul18.125442.5470@truevision>
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- Nf-From: truevision.com!pauls Jul 18 16:54:00 1992
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- Why don't you forget about Hungarian notation (trying to do type checking by
- hand), and just select the identifier in question, hold down the middle mouse
- button and read the pop-up dialog box that tells you what the identifier
- (or other symbol) is all about?
- What type it is (if it is a variable or a type)
- Its current value (if it is a variable, and the program is running)
- Notes you or past programmers may have typed in about that identifier
- ....
- If you want the dialog box to hang around after you release the mouse
- button, just release the middle mouse button outside of the dialog box.
-
- Why not quit wasting net bandwidth arguing about whether Hungarian notation
- is useful, and just implement a programming environment that includes features
- like the ones I made up in the previous paragraph?
- I don't imagine too many people will be interested in Hungarian notation once
- they have such a programming environment.
- People who like Hungarian notation won't bother with it any more.
- People who don't like Hungarian notation who't have to see it any more.
- People who don't really care about Hungarian notation can read interesting
- articles in comp.lang.c again.
-
- Paul Scherf
- pauls@truevision.com
- Truevision Inc., Indianapolis, IN
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