Re: Hungarian Notation

Jim Cooper wrote:
>
> I tried counting the number of components in my D2005, but got bored
> at 300, and I wasn't even nearly at the end of the list. Do you really
> think that learning that many abbreviations is easy? Maybe for you it
> is, but for *most* of us, that's hard.
>
> And that's even before you've installed any third-party components you
> might be using.

I'm pretty sure I've already made this very clear a number of times, I do
not advocate a different prefix for every possible control variant. I don't
care if there are 30 different types of button controls, they are all just
buttons. a TwwDBEdit is still just an edit control. I haven't done a
complete count, but on average I doubt there are more than a dozen or so
different prefixes in my code including query and datasource components.

> Well, (a) I bet you would when reading someone else's HN who used a
> different set of abbreviations than you (actually, I think even if
> they used the same HN as you, because you won't *know* that for quite
> some time), and (b) doesn't challenge my point at all. Most people
> *do* find reading HN harder.

Some people use "edt" instead of "ed" or "lbl" instead of "lab", etc. Yes
there are variations as there are for indentation, for where the "begin"
goes, etc. But in all the code written by others I've ever looked at, I've
never had a problem figuring out such prefixes as these.


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