Any Convention on Naming Conventions?

[Bob Sneidar]

Everyone has their own. I name variables beginning with the, as in theSQL, but others will tell you this is bad practice because if I put a space between the and everything else, LiveCode will think I am talking about a property! DOH! I'm a bad, bad programmer. SBT Accounting used to have all variables begin with m (for Memory I guess), arrays began with a, global variables began with m0 (or a0 for global arrays) etc. 

Besides that, I preface data grids with dg, groups with grp, labels with lbl, data fields with fld, buttons with btn, etc. Why you ask? Because the Application Browser sorts by name, and this way I can have all my like objects sorted together whilst still maintaining the tree format it uses. Also, when searching, I can find all references to buttons by searching my scripts for btn. 

I also try to make it a habit to enclose object names in quotes. It isn't strictly necessary, as LiveCode is very forgiving in this respect, but it avoids any conflicts and actually makes it a bit easier to distinguish variables from object names in my code. 

Bob


On Jan 14, 2011, at 5:14 PM, Calvin Waterbury wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have spent some time perusing the articles on "Naming Conventions," but I did not discover anything about mutual agreement on the subject (maybe I missed it?).
> 
> Is there any universally accepted and agreed on "Naming Convention" I should adopt?
> 
> Thank you,
> Calvin
> 
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