Re: Private variables question

Phill Harvey-Smith a écrit :

What I guess i'm asking is why prefix it with 'F' ? I have been tending to use 'Pr' in my own code for Private, I guess the compiler does not care, just wondered why it seemed to be a convention ?

More than likely because private variables are known as "fields".

Although I have given up on using prefixes unless it is an underscore for private fields, and that only because Delphi is not case-sensitive.

In C#, I would use :

{
public class Person
{
private string name;

private int age;

public string Name
{
get { return name; }
set { name = value; }
}

public int Age
{
get { return age; }
set { age = value; }
}
}
}

.... so in Delphi I would use :

type
Person = class
private
_name: string;
_age: integer;
public
property Name: string
read _name
write _name;
property Age: int
read _age
write _age;
end;

AFAICR, the only other occasions that prefixes are really needed are for interfaces (IMyInterface) and enumerations because you can't qualify them to their type like you can in C# (MyEnum.One, MyEnum.Two, etc)

Of course, there are some that would sentence me to the "Comfy Chair" for such heresy as relying on case sensitivity in C# but, once you get used to it, not having to embellish names just to differentiate visibility kinda grows on you :-)

Joanna

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Joanna Carter [TeamB]
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