Naming conventions [was: Food Fight]

[Richard Gaskin]

Ken Ray wrote:
> On 6/22/05 11:40 AM, "Dennis Brown" <see3d at writeme.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Thanks for the many replies about naming conventions.  So to summarize:
>>
>>1.  The cryptic names are not really being pushed to make things
>>unreadable, but as protection from the deficiencies of Rev.
>>
>>(etc.)
> 
> I guess you could say that... and keep in mind that these "deficiencies"
> didn't start with Rev - *all* xTalk languages (AFAIK) suffer these same
> defiencies.

Pretty much all languages that don't support namespaces are similarly 
affected.

The notation many of us use is called "Hungarian-lite" because it 
follows much more comprehensive guidelines extablished by Hunagarian 
programming master Charles Simonyi between his tenures at PARC Place and 
Microsoft.

Because we don't work for Simonyi, none of us is truly required to 
follow Hungarian notation, "lite" or otherwise.

As with anything one might share as a tip that has helped them, if 
"Hungarian-lite" appeals to you feel free to use it, and if not feel 
free to ignore it.

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  Richard Gaskin
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