26 Jul
2017
26 Jul
'17
5:51 p.m.
On Jul 26, 2017, at 12:45 PM, Ted Roche tedroche@gmail.com wrote:
I completely agree *if you are using a strongly-typed language* that including the type-prefix in the variable/field names is redundant. VFP is NOT strongly typed, so sometimes it's handy.
While 25 years ago I adopted the Hungarian notation that was promoted in Codebook, when I left the Fox world I found that no one else used it. My early Python code used it, and reading it now it seems kind of silly. Using a clear variable name is all that I need now.
Also, “strongly-typed language” is not the same as statically-typed, which is probably what the author meant. Python is strongly-typed, meaning that a statement like:
x = 1 + “0”
will raise an exception.
-- Ed Leafe