Re: Variable/Procedure Naming Conventions

-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Wed, 26 Jul 2017, at 06:37 PM, Paul H. Tarver wrote: > 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@tpcqpc.com > > > > > > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server]