I was reading a chapter on 'Meaningful Names' in the book "Clean Code" by
Robert C. Martin last night and right after he made a big point of using
"Intention-Revealing Names" ie: make the name of a variable, procedure or
function reflect its use, he then takes the opportunity to trash the
Hungarian Notation system (and by extension I suppose any similar naming
convention, including the YAlan Griver convention) saying that with today's
strongly typed variables, notation like this is useless and should be
avoided.
Quite frankly, it hacked me off as I've spent the better part of 25 years
learning and becoming disciplined enough to use the YAG naming convention as
well as I could in FoxPro and I've used the same naming convention
regardless of the language or its strongly typed variables because it works
for me.
In my world, any roadmap or breadcrumbs I can leave myself for future
maintenance and standardization is a good thing.
Thoughts?
Paul H. Tarver
Tarver Program Consultants, Inc.
Email: <mailto:paul@tpcqpc.com> paul(a)tpcqpc.com
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