My naming convention

[Damien Girard]

Hi,

I totally disagree with you, having a naming convention in an enterprise
helps to produce faster application, but I am talking here about real
application, not a funny stack that display few funny effects...

In my other life (a life without RunRev), I am working in a team of 6
developers, everybody is using my naming convention that I told before, and
the productivity gain is incredible, cause, it is not Revolution, it is C,
and I am working on application that have more than 15000 lines, that
communicate with multiple card, and that have dozen threads and hundred
messages.
So, imagine now if everybody do what they want with naming convention ?
> You get lost, nobody can reuse your work.

When I have to work on the file of a colleague, I simply open it, I saw that
he is calling few global with the "g", few statics with the "s" and I can
use few "t" variables. This took me 5 minutes to have in my head a map of
the source code file.. Productivity loss?

And the best things, with naming convention, in NetBeans IDE, I want a
global, I press "g" + Ctrl + Space and I have got all my global listed! Have
just to pick the one that need, no need to look around and find in what .h
file I placed my global..

So, what I wanted to say:
- Small program, utility, sure, no need convention
- Real program, without one, you are dead. (yes, cause your teammates killed
you :p)


My 2 cents (in euros too)

Damien
NativeSoft, France.

PS: Yes I saw the troll, but I am going in ^^


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Hi from Beautiful Brittany,

Sorry to put the proverbial cat among the pigeons !

Wonderful ! I have never seen so many complex
naming conventions that I am sure you don't follow.

If you do, then it is for who ? If it is for you,
this means that your organizational solutions
prime upon your script development and production.
What a waste of grey matter !
If you spend more time wondering what you are
going to call your variables, than developing
your scripts, then you DO have a problem !

In 5 minutes, you can write a button script to
list out Variable and Field Names, to ensure that
you don't invent duplicate names.

Revolution scripting is not to be pondered upon.
Just write it, as it flows out of your brain.
Don't invent rules that you will not follow !

Naming conventions are personal. They are
mostly designed to help YOU, maintain and
modify YOUR scripts in the future, if you
ever NEED to return to them !

Forget naming conventions, and spend a little
time with comments. It beats naming conventions
every day. If anybody will ever read it except you !

If you ever have to return to your scripts
(and I doubt that you do this often), you
either recognize your coding, and your coding
knowledge, AND YOUR COMMENTS, and so you don't
need to invent a complex naming convention,
or else it is not your script, and HIS naming
convention is of no help whatsoever.
But by the saints, an intelligent comment is !!!

I spent years (with Hypercard) inventing a simple
and strict naming convention WHICH I MYSELF
RENAGUE ON EVERY DAY !

So - what is the point ?

My 2 cents (of a euro) !

- Francis

-"Nothing should ever be done for the first time !"




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